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Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Filed by MEREDITH CORPORATION FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,597,161
Total expenses
$1,386,870
Contributions and grants received
not reported
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$1,215,500
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$31,192,494

Listed in Part VIII

  • Mell Meredith Frazier

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edwin T Meredith IV

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephen Lacy

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$1,215,500
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$1,215,500
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY

    $400,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN

    $315,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • GRAYS LAKE PLAYGROUND & SPRAYGROUND FUND

    $125,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • SCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA

    $110,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • CHILDSERVE FOUNDATION

    $50,000

    JOHNSTON, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES

    $40,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • REBUILDING TOGETHER

    $25,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

    $25,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • DES MOINES ARTS FESTIVAL

    $15,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL IOWA

    $15,000

    DES MOINES, IA

    GENERAL SUPPORT

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Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2024
Filed
14 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202543219349104489

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