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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.

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$364kHuman Services$304kFood & Nutrition$217kArts & Culture$199kInternational$178kEducation$126kPhilanthropy$100kYouth Development$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $146k
$7,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN ARTIST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC$25,000
TUSK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
THE PARISH OF ST VINCENT FERRE & STCATHERINE$20,000
READ 718$11,000
ARISE FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN COMPUTER & ROBOTICS MUSEUM$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
HELP CENTER$10,000
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$9,500
UNRWA USA$9,500
GRACE SMITH HOUSE$8,000
COVENANT HOUSE$7,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $8k → 9%UPTURN ARTS: $3k → 23%K9 CARE MONTANA: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $7k → 9%UPTURN ARTS: $2k → 23%K9 CARE MONTANA: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $7k → 9%UPTURN ARTS: $2k → 23%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $5k → 9%HELP CENTER: $10k → 10%K9 CARE MONTANA: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $5k → 9%K9 CARE MONTANA: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%GRACE SMITH HOUSE: $1k → 9%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%PAWLING YOGA & WELLNESS: $5k → 9%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 10%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $5k → 9%THE CENTER OF COMPASSION: $5k → 9%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $5k → 9%The Center of Compassion: $3k → 9%THE CENTER OF COMPASSION: $2k → 9%HELP CENTER: $4k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $30k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 17%HELP CENTER: $3k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $8k → 17%HELP CENTER: $2k → 10%HELP CENTER: $2k → 10%HELP CENTER: $2k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $40k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $30k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 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

MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
SC
DC
LA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 51 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
28

Total granted

$1.7M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & 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

  • AF
    ARISE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +71%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +34%
  • LN
    LIFEWAY NETWORK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DOMINICAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • AM
    AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +35%
  • NE
    NATIONAL EMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
Pathfinder International

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…

International
2
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
3
Pathways Kitchen

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

Crime & Legal
4
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
5
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

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.

Education
6
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

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…

Health
7
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
The Bridge Project Inc

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…

Philanthropy
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
World Vision Inc

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…

International
12
Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 85 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
45/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFEWAY NETWORK INC: $157,500 · OtherLIFEWAY NETWORK INCAMERICAN COMPUTER & ROBOTICS MUSEUM: $51,000 · OtherAMERICAN COMPUTER & ROBOTICS MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE PARISH OF ST VINCENT FERRE & STCATHERINE: $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOC OF CHAIRS OF DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY: $32,000 · OtherJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA: $30,500 · OtherGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Other+39 more: $370,500 · Other+39 moreCOVENANT HOUSE: $172,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesGRACE SMITH HOUSE …HELP CENTER INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INCCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SER…K9 CARE MONTANA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesK9 CARE MONTANA IN…+7 more: $43,800 · Human Services+7 morePOLARIS PROJECT: $90,000 · InternationalPOLARIS PRO…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $36,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…Bread for the World Institute: $34,500 · InternationalBread for t…UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $14,500 · InternationalUNRWA USA N…+4 more: $22,000 · International+4 moreAfrican Artists Community Development Project Inc: $67,000 · Arts & CultureAfrican Art…BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC: $50,500 · Arts & CultureBROOKFIELD …THE YARD INC: $44,500 · Arts & CultureTHE YARD IN…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WATCH AND CLOCK COLLECTORS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL AS…Enriching Lives Through Music: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $9,500 · Arts & CultureARISE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyARISE FOUN…ONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyAlliance to End Hunger: $58,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $24,000 · Food & NutritionPENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $18,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionREAD 718 INC: $87,000 · EducationTrevor Day School: $6,000 · EducationSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · Education
Other$766,500Human Services$314,300International$197,000Arts & Culture$196,500Philanthropy$182,500Food & Nutrition$121,500Education$105,000

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 budgetARISE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $172,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEWAY NETWORK INC: $157,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $90,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREAD 718 INC: $87,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetAfrican Artists Community Development Project Inc: $67,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $58,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC: $50,500 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $44,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $34,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELP CENTER INC: $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPENNYPACK FARM & EDUCATION CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetK9 CARE MONTANA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBoys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY: $18,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBread For The World Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Village Group: $17,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WATCH AND CLOCK COLLECTORS INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MIDWIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetBIGS & LITTLES NYC MENTORING INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER OF COMPASSION INC: $10,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEND WELL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pax Christi Fund for Peace: $6,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTrevor Day School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPTURN ARTS: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRAINING INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPawling Yoga and Wellness Inc: $5,300 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCATALYST FOR KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTSERINGS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $5,000 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.

  • 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 AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds K9 CARE MONTANA INC ↗
  • 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 Enriching Lives Through Music ↗

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.

Meehan FoundationNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William M & Miriam F Meehan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William M & Miriam F Meehan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
  • South Kent School Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report 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.
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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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