How much did THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

farmepiscopal churchmidland

2021

cystic fibrosis

2022

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2023

—

2024

healingliving

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $79k
$10k–50k7 grants · $105k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

SAN AUGUSTINE LEGACY GROUP$22,000
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$20,000
GENERATION ONE$15,000
STAR OF HOPE WOMEN'S SHELTER$14,000
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$14,000
THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES$10,000
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY$10,000
SAN AUGUSTINE COMMUNITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$8,500
LIVING HOPE YOUTH RANCH$8,500
CAMP ALLEN THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF TEXAS$7,000
HOPE AND HEALING CENTER & INSTITUTE$6,000
SAN AUGUSTINE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DEEP EAST TEXAS$5,000
HOPE MOMMIES$4,000
ST MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$787k · 32 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$787k

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+70%

Still filing today

34%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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GENERATION ONE
5× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +68%
TF
THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES
5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +64%
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY
5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +57%

Funded once

BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST TEXAS
one grant, 2020 · $10k
1H
16 HANDS OF LOVE
one grant, 2021 · $8k
OH
OREGON HORSE RESCUE
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +1%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

Protecting the coastal prairie for the benefit of its wildlife and the people of Texas.

Environment

Houston Botanic Garden

Enriching life through discovery, education, and conservation of the natural environment.

Environment

Trees for Houston

Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.

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Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition

Redemption Ridge

Redemption Ridge is dedicated to bringing hope and healing to young girls rescued from the horrendous world of sex trafficking. We are committed to redeeming lives, restoring dignity and placing purpose in hearts of these precious children.

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Bosque School

Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…

Education

Rewild

Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving earth where all life flourishes.

Animals

Lifewater Inc

Lifewater International is a non-profit Christian water development organization.

Environment

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Shining Hope Farms

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Agricultural Resilience and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,759

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/33

Grantees still filing

28/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$627,150Human Services$88,750Education$73,500Crime & Legal$61,000Recreation & Sports$39,500Food & Nutrition$11,900Environment$9,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vivian L Smith FoundationTX18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Warren Charitable Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812498845 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DEAR JOHN MICHAEL FOUNDATION FOR FIGHTING DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Meyer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Meyer Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Meyer Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE MEYER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Meyer Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph