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William M & Miriam F Meehan 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN ARTIST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| THE PARISH OF ST VINCENT FERRE & STCATHERINE | $20,000 |
| TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| READ 718 | $11,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| HELP CENTER | $10,000 |
| JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE | $10,000 |
| PENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ARISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPUTER & ROBOTICS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $9,500 |
| UNRWA USA | $9,500 |
| GRACE SMITH HOUSE | $8,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +44% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- AFARISE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +71%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +34%
- LNLIFEWAY NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TDTHE DOMINICAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- AMAMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +35%
- NENATIONAL EMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The bridge project, inc. (the organization") is a non-profit organization that seeks to solve child poverty in the united states. launched in june 2021 by the monarch foundation, it is new york's first consistent unconditional cash…
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
Project bread integrates expertise earned through directly serving individuals, research, advocacy, and community engagement for a comprehensive approach that achieves large scale, sustainable impact to prevent hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Visions Foundation. 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 21 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
60 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. 60 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 ARISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIFEWAY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds READ 718 INC ↗
- Who funds African Artists Community Development Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance to End Hunger ↗
- Who funds BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds K9 CARE MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Boys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds The Village Group ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WATCH AND CLOCK COLLECTORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIGS & LITTLES NYC MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
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: Meehan Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services · First Security Bank Foundation · Gilhousen Family Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · One Valley Community 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 M & Miriam F Meehan 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- South Kent School Corporation — 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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