Illinois · Private foundation
The Meyer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 38
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Meyer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $544k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $1.4M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.2M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.4M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.2M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkland College Foundation | $1,050,000 | 7 | 12% |
| United Way of Champaign County | $800,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Champaign Public Library Foundation | $750,000 | 7 | 47% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $700,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club | $457,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il | $376,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Champaign County Casa Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Daily Bread Soup Kitchen Inc | $315,000 | 7 | 8% |
| San Diego Opera Association | $275,765 | 7 | 1% |
| Carle Development Foundation | $200,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Meyer Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of East Central Illinois · Wgrc Inc · United Way of Champaign County · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ezra Levin Foundation · Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Hartmann Family Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · The Carle Foundation Hospital · Raynie Foundation · William W Capel And Ernest J Martin III Family Foundation · Eastern Illinois Foodbank
How this is measured
About The Meyer Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Meyer Charitable Foundation give?
- The Meyer Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $1,570,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Meyer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (21%), Youth Development (9%).
- Who are The Meyer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Parkland College Foundation ($1.1M), United Way of Champaign County ($800k), Champaign Public Library Foundation ($750k).
- Does The Meyer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meyer Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Meyer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of East Central Illinois, Wgrc Inc, United Way of Champaign County.
- Where is The Meyer Charitable Foundation based?
- The Meyer Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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