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MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION

MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,602 to it, the largest being I & G CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($137,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$41k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$291k
Net assets
$54k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%
01What it does

What Meridian Health Foundation does

Mission

The Meridian Health Foundation promotes healing in both the individual and the environment through education the delivery of preventative and supportive health services and the arts

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. 0

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($79k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($55k)2019 Revenue 55 ($44k) Expenses 93 ($71k) Net assets 51 ($28k)2020 Revenue 52 ($41k) Expenses 74 ($56k) Net assets 24 ($13k)2021 Revenue 51 ($40k) Expenses 54 ($41k) Net assets 22 ($12k)2022 Revenue 73 ($58k) Expenses 43 ($33k) Net assets 67 ($37k)2023 Revenue 86 ($68k) Expenses 88 ($67k) Net assets 69 ($38k)2024 Revenue 52 ($41k) Expenses 63 ($48k) Net assets 98 ($54k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (52)Expenses (63)Net assets (98)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $55k to $28k (−49%).

$55k
$28k
$13k
$12k
$37k
$38k
$54k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’18
−$27k
’19
−$15k
’20
−$1k
’21
$25k
’22
$947
’23
−$6k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Selena Trotter

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $53k → $38k.

1 of 7 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 MERIDIAN HEALTH 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

MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% 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 MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION.

47%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

IL
IN
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION's revenue fell 48% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−16% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION?
MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,602 to it, the largest being I & G CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($137,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $290,602 in grants to MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION?
I & G CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $137,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7 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