· Private foundation
William C Meier Foundation Ima
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PREISTLY FRATERNITY ST PETER OUR | $23,000 |
| TOUGALOO COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BENEDICTINE SISTERS OF ERIE | $10,000 |
| SAME AS U INC | $10,000 |
| LOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF AKRON | $10,000 |
| IN STEP WITH HORSES | $10,000 |
| WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LIFE POINT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| STEELERS CHARITIES | $7,500 |
| ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| CARMEL CLAY EDUCATION FDN INC | $7,329 |
| CAMP - CAREER APPRENTICESHIP AND | $7,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE HOME GUILD INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- WCWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +183%
- SSSAINT SEBASTIAN PARISH FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +17%
- TGTHE GATHERING PLACE4× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- JJRCone grant, 2020 · $18k
- OLOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE SEMINARYone grant, 2024 · $17k
- SPST PETER CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
Motivated by faith, catholic social services helps poor and vulnerable seniors and families reach their potential.
We, st. joseph mercy chelsea and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph mercy chelsea is a member of trinity health - michigan and…
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. our lady of mercy life center is a member of st. peter's health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 85 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 WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MERCY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT SEBASTIAN PARISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds J R COLEMAN SENIOR OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CLINIC MERCY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds LOBULAR BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds SAME AS U INC ↗
- Who funds IN STEP WITH HORSESINC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE STEP AT A TIME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEELERS CHARITIES ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Stark Community Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · E A Mahoney Family Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · 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 William C Meier Foundation Ima 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.
- One Step at a Time Foundation — 37% 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.