· Private foundation
Urban and Shelley Meyer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of URBAN AND SHELLEY MEYER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ROCK CITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUDNATION - MONDAY AFTER MASTERS | $22,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,576 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COLUMBUS ZOO & AQUARIUM | $2,000 |
| HEART OF THE CITY | $2,000 |
| UNVERFERTH HOUSE INC | $1,750 |
| SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,500 |
| THE BRAYDEN COLE HINCK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| RAINEY ELITE SPEED | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +684%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +75%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC4× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- DFDRIVEN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +51%
- TOTHE OSU FOUNDATION - JAMES CANCER EXPANSIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BGBowling Green State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +95%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Driven Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 141 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DRIVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bowling Green State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Unverferth House Inc ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HELP CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Safelite Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation
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 organization Urban and Shelley Meyer Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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