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W S & M L Meyers Char Fdn II at a glance

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W S & M L Meyers Char Fdn II

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.

$466k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.0MReligion$590kArts & Culture$451kEducation$451kPublic Safety & Disaster$301kHealth$197k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $163k
$46,645
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$93,288
THE HOUSE OF HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$69,965
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$46,649
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$46,645
SALVATION ARMY - ST PAUL$46,645
RED CROSS - TWIN CITIES AREA CHAPTER$46,645
THE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$23,324
COTTEY COLLEGE$23,324
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA$23,324
THE MINNESOTA OPERA$23,324
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA$13,996
CAF - CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$9,330
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $855k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $55k → 11%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $49k → 11%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $48k → 11%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $45k → 11%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $29k → 11%THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $28k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $111k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $98k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $96k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $93k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $90k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $57k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $57k → 14%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 15 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$3.0M
$10k

Still filing today

53%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $601k · revenue +107%
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $301k · revenue +195%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2019–2024 · $254k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CS
    CAF - ST ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
3
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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4
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
6
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
7
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
8
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Orchestral Association; the most unlike its peers is Union Gospel Mission Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $300,710 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $300,690 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCTHE HOUSE OF HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $253,719 · OtherTHE HOUSE OF HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSALVATION ARMY - ST PAUL: $169,150 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - ST PAULTHE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $150,355 · OtherTHE SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRATHE SALVATION ARMY: $131,540 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $90,222 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA+4 more: $106,789 · Other+4 morePRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $601,369 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATIONAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $254,045 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & It…MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $150,355 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA O…The Minnesota Opera: $150,355 · Arts & CultureThe Minneso…House of Hope Inc: $197,308 · HealthCOTTEY COLLEGE: $150,355 · Education
Other$1,503,175Human Services$855,414Arts & Culture$300,710Health$197,308Education$150,355

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $601,369 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $300,690 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $254,045 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Hope Inc: $197,308 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $150,355 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOTTEY COLLEGE: $150,355 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $150,355 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $90,222 over 7y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds House of Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
  • Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗

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.

Waltermargaret Meyers…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Amazonsmile Foundation
Waltermargaret Meyers Char FdnTX14.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waltermargaret Meyers Char Fdn · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 W S & M L Meyers Char Fdn II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W S & M L Meyers Char Fdn II. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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.

    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 17 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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