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Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Dallas, TX · EIN 46-3992618. Reported 40 grants totalling $5,797,759 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$92,650median reported grant
$5,797,759granted, 2021-2024
63%of grantees funded again the next year
26%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, the IRS classifies it under mental health rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE F05) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 63% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $92,650. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $197,529; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $984,691. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
13 grants
$250,000 Or More
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Ut Southwestern Med CenterDallas, TX$1,504,129222024
City of GalvestonGalveston, TX$672,196222024
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, MA$521,124332024
The Univ of Texas at AustinAustin, TX$456,974442024
Gulf Coast CenterLeague City, TX$345,305222024
Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico IncCarolina, PR$312,950112022
Howard UniversityWashington, DC$240,000112024
Texas Community College Education InitiativeAustin, TX$206,000112024
Baylor Health Care System FoundationDallas, TX$190,000222023
The Good Nation Foundation IncNew York, NY$160,000222024
Methodist Hospitals of DallasDallas, TX$150,000222024
Tarrant County Hospital DistrictFort Worth, TX$150,000222024
Stephen C Rose Legacy FoundationOlney, MD$105,000112023
Bridges Across Texas IncRichmond, TX$100,000112024
Texas Health ResourcesArlington, TX$100,000112024
The Jed FoundationNew York, NY$95,300112023
Fountain House IncNew York, NY$60,000112024
Texas Network of Youth Services IncorporatedAustin, TX$55,297112024
Dallas County Mental Health & Mental Retardation CenterDallas, TX$51,917112024
Active Minds IncWashington, DC$50,000112023
Irving IsdIrving, TX$50,000112024
American Indians in Texas - at the Spanish Colonial MissionsSan Antonio, TX$46,567112024
Edgewood IsdSan Antonio, TX$35,000112024
Harlandale IsdSan Antonio, TX$35,000112024
Judson IsdLive Oak, TX$35,000112024
San Antonio IsdSan Antonio, TX$35,000112024
University of Texas SystemAustin, TX$25,000112022
Hopelab Foundation IncSan Francisco, CA$10,000112024

9 of 28 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
4 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Mental Health
3 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Medical Research
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20211$33,793$33,793
20225$643,664$90,000
202312$2,783,218$102,500
202422$2,337,084$57,648

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

73% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Texas
$4.2M
Massachusetts
$521K
New York
$315K
Puerto Rico
$313K
District of Columbia
$290K
Maryland
$105K
California
$10K

Down to the city

Dallas, TX
$1.9M
Austin, TX
$743K
Galveston, TX
$672K
Cambridge, MA
$521K
League City, TX
$345K
New York, NY
$315K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Texas Inc7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $92,650 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 3003 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75204.

EIN 46-3992618 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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