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.

The Meyer Charitable Foundation

The Meyer Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$350k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$3.7MEducation$2.3MYouth Development$978kHuman Services$916kPhilanthropy$803kFood & Nutrition$565kArts & Culture$506kCrime & Legal$350kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $34k
$10k–50k21 grants · $345k
$50k–250k9 grants · $842k
$250k+1 grant · $350k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JDRF INTERNATIONAL	$350,000
MAYO CLINIC	$166,667
DON MOYER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB	$120,000
PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$100,000
UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ILLINOIS INC	$100,000
THE HIGH SCHOOL OF ST THOMAS MORE- CHAMPAIGN	$100,000
PRAIRIELANDS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #117	$80,000
CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$75,000
SAN DIEGO OPERA ASSOCIATION	$50,000
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY CASA INC	$50,000
DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC	$45,000
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY FREEDOM CELEBRATION	$25,000
FOREST PRESERVE FRIENDS FOUNDATION	$25,000
CRISIS NURSERY	$20,000
CUNNINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOME OF URBANA ILLINOIS	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $646k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.4M · 46 repeat orgs$431k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.4M

$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

-10%

Still filing today

76%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

PC
PARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +44%
UW
UNITED WAY OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
7× · 2019–2025 · $800k · revenue +13%
CP
CHAMPAIGN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $750k · revenue +268% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

JD
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $350k
FF
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC
one grant, 2019 · $25k
UG
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW
one grant, 2019 · $20k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Chicago Municipal Employee's Credit Union

To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…

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University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health

The Civic Federation

The civic federation provides objective research and recommendations to improve government efficiency, transparency and accountability and to educate policymakers and the public.

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Champaign County Health Care Consumers

The champaign county health care consumers is a citizen action organization, founded on the premise of participatory democracy and the belief that meaningful reforms in the health care system will come only with the active involvement of…

Health

Concordia University Chicago

Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…

Education

Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health

Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

University of Illinois Alumni Association

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…

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Chicago Public Library Foundation

The chicago public library foundation was established in 1986 as an independent nonprofit dedicated to connecting private investment with innovative and community-responsive programming that leverages our library's city-wide footprint,…

Education

Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rubys Rescue & Retreat Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

30/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,499,265Education$1,990,500Health$1,862,834Philanthropy$810,000Human Services$646,000Food & Nutrition$565,000Youth Development$457,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation of East Central IllinoisIL36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Meyer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meyer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home