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The Meyers Family Foundation at a glance

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The Meyers Family 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$101kArts & Culture$62kHuman Services$58kHealth$38kYouth Development$21kInternational$15kEmployment$6kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$12,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER$2,500
DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,500
GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME$1,300
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS METRO DENVER$1,000
DENVER HOSPICE$1,000
DENVER CENTER PERFORMING ARTS$1,000
COLORADO FORUM FUND$1,000
ACTIVATE WORK INC$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB NEWPORT$1,000
GLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE$1,000
ROSE ANDOM CENTER$750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DENVER HOSPICE: $1k → 12%DENVER HOSPICE: $1k → 12%DENVER HOSPICE: $500 → 12%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $750 → 7%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $750 → 7%BENEFITS IN ACTION: $750 → 7%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $13k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $7k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $5k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER: $3k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $3k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $1k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $1k → 12%ACTIVATE WORK INC: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 33% of The Meyers Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 91%.

The Meyers Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 20 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$278k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+5%

Still filing today

85%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +79%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • CT
    CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • TN
    TAKE NOTE COLORADO
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -96%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +29%
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.

1
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
3
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
4
Colorado Health Institute
Health
5
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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6
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
7
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
8
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
9
Careerwise Colorado

Careerwise's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for empowered young…

Education
10
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
11
Colorado Dream Foundation

We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…

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12
Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation

Better leaders create a better colorado. through immersive programs, civic engagement, and lifelong connection, the leadership foundation helps people and businesses unlock their potential and use it to drive meaningful change. we develop…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $84,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $7,800 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONSTOKED MENTORING INC: $6,000 · EducationSTOKED MENTORING INCCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $39,975 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVE…THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION O…ACTIVATE WORK INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesACTIVATE WORK INCHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $2,250 · Human ServicesDENVER ART MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUMGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTIT…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $14,800 · HealthChildren's H…GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $13,250 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN …ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $3,750 · HealthROCKY MOUNTA…+2 more: $1,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB NEWPORT: $10,300 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS C…DENVER CENTER PERFORMING ARTS: $6,800 · OtherDENVER CENTER …FOUNDATION FOR CO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR…NPR - NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $4,400 · OtherNPR - NATIONAL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $3,200 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS…MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO: $2,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH …ROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $1,750 · Other+6 more: $5,000 · Other+6 moreDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,920 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Education$97,800Human Services$68,225Arts & Culture$66,000Health$32,800Other$38,950Philanthropy$3,920Community Improvement$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC: $39,975 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL LIVINGSTON INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $14,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $13,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $7,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTOKED MENTORING INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACTIVATE WORK INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,920 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENEFITS IN ACTION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DENVER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSE ANDOM CENTER INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Anschutz Foundati…The Colorado Health F…The Anna and John J S…Libertygives Foundati…Gary PhilanthropyTemple Hoyne Buell Fo…Ima FoundationXcel Energy Foundation
The Denver FoundationCO26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · Libertygives Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Ima Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation

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 Meyers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meyers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Meyers Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Meyers Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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