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The Richard Meier Foundation at a glance

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The Richard Meier Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.4MPhilanthropy$510kHealth$437kSocial Science$386kArts & Culture$218kEnvironment$86kRecreation & Sports$35kInternational$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $425k
  • $250k+1 grant · $900k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMESCHOOL NOW - KAUAI$900,000
MAKANA NORTH SHORE URGENT CARE$200,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$175,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
HANALEI INITIATIVE$15,000
CG FOUNDATION$12,000
COMMUNITY RENEWAL$10,000
THE TOWN SCHOOL$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCE: $10k → 8%LEILA JANAH FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FARMER'S FOOTPRINT-PROJECTBIOME: $10k → 11%GETTY CENTER - THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $100k → 14%CG FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON: $5k → 7%DUTCHESS LAND CONCERVANCY: $5k → 9%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10k → 9%COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 15%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $5k → 18%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $15k → 6%NATURE CONSERVANCY OF LONG ISLAND: $10k → 7%ONE TREE PLANTED: $10k → 10%HANALEI INITIATIVE: $15k → 9%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 15%HOMESCHOOL NOW - KAUAI: $900k → 9%DIA ART FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 15%MAKANA NORTH SHORE URGENT CARE: $200k → 9%EVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $20k → 17%HOMESCHOOL NOW - KAUAI: $200k → 9%CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL: $15k → 17%HOMESCHOOL NOW - KAUAI: $100k → 9%FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK: $5k → 17%HOMESCHOOL NOW- KAUAI: $12k → 9%THE WATERMILL CENTER: $10k → 7%GOOD INSTITUTE: $300k → 17%GOOD INSTITUTE: $75k → 17%AMBER WAVES FARM: $5k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MUSEUMS IN ISRAEL: $5k → 17%THE BLUE SCHOOL: $75k → 17%THE BLUE SCHOOL: $25k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY (WOMEN'S COMMITTEE): $10k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY (WOMEN'S COMMITTEE): $10k → 17%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10k → 17%HARLEM LACROSSE: $15k → 17%HUDSON RIVER PARK FRIENDS: $15k → 17%ROBIN HOOD: $20k → 17%THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10k → 17%THE NIGHTINGALE FUND: $7k → 17%CITY MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $15k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 11 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
43

Total granted

$2.0M
$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+20%

Still filing today

45%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +38%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • TL
    THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • EVERY MOTHER COUNTS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -24%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -10%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
11
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cg Foundation. 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

46 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. 46 of the 63 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
31/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMESCHOOL NOW - KAUAI: $1,212,000 · OtherHOMESCHOOL NOW - KAUAIGOOD INSTITUTE: $375,000 · OtherGOOD INSTITUTEMAKANA NORTH SHORE URGENT CARE: $200,000 · OtherMAKANA NORTH SHORE URGENT CAREMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERBLUE SCHOOL: $100,000 · Other+28 more: $196,250 · Other+28 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $490,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST+3 more: $42,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureANYONE CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementThe Hanalei Initiative Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,250 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $15,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentLEILA JANAH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · International
Other$2,233,250Philanthropy$632,000Arts & Culture$103,000Community Improvement$56,250Health$50,100Environment$40,500International$21,000

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $490,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEILA JANAH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hanalei Initiative Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOWN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MUSEUMS IN ISRAEL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANYONE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWESTMORELAND SANCTUARY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100 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 New York Communit…J & Ar FoundationNational Philanthropi…Community Foundation …Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The New York Community TrustNY16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · J & Ar Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
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 · 0–25%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Richard Meier Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Richard Meier 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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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