Missouri · Nonprofit
MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION
MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,721 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($271,295). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $869k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $391k
- Net assets
- $948k
What Megan Meier Foundation does
Mission
To support and inspire actions to end bullying, cyberbullying and suicide
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling: Individual Counseling and Group Counseling. Free individual and group counseling services with licensed mental health professionals. Therapy is designed to improve mental health, develop effective coping strategies, and advance self-understanding and acceptance.
$340,742 spent61% of program spendingSupport Center and Community Education: Providing Outreach, Training, and Public Speaking These programs provide resources, referrals, and meaningful support to youth and families around the world who are coping with a variety of behavioral health issues, including depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm, bullying-related trauma, anxiety, and lack of self-esteem.
$156,406 spent28% of program spendingJuvenile Justice Center Programs: School Attendance Initiative and Small Group Counseling. These programs focus on reducing the school-to-prison pipeline by addressing truancys root causes, including poverty and mental health, through supportive interventions for at-risk students and families. These initiatives aim to reduce court referrals and juvenile facility commitments by enhancing school engagement and attendance, thus preventing the progression of first-time offenders into repeat offenders.
$61,445 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $558,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $483k to $1.2M (+148%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 2% · 2022 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christina Meier-Merriweather
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $64k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 37% · 2019 31% · 2020 35% · 2021 77% · 2022 68% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
27% of MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION?
- MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,721 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($271,295). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $390,721 in grants to MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $271,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing