The Meadows Foundation is located at 3003 Swiss Avenue in the Wilson Historic District in Dallas, TX., and was incorporated as a private philanthropic institution in 1948 by Virginia and Algur H. Meadows. The purpose of the foundation is "to benefit the people of Texas", and their mission is "to assist the people and institutions of Texas improve the quality and circumstances of life for themselves and future generations."[1] The foundation has distributed "more than $1.1 billion in grants and direct charitable expenditures to more than 2,000 Texas institutions and agencies."[2]