Michael L. Meadows
For more than 30 years, Michael Meadows has served others through an array of charitable and for-profit organizations. Prior to joining Foundation Management’s team as Vice President, Michael was Senior Vice President and Private Wealth Advisor at Westwood Holdings Group, a publicly traded global asset management firm. He created and led Westwood’s Foundation and Philanthropic Advisory Services, where he advised more than 20 private foundation and nonprofit clients, and individual philanthropists.
He brings experiences from diverse leadership roles, including President and CEO of the Dallas Zoological Society, Executive Vice President for Southwestern Medical Foundation and work as a development officer for The University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Texas at Austin.
Michael has personal experience as a grant maker, serving as a family trustee for The Meadows Foundation and a non-family trustee for the Mike A. Myers Foundation and the Simmons Family Foundation. He also served on the board of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, where he chaired the Foundation’s grants committee.
Through these experiences, Michael has developed a deep understanding of best practices and the responsibilities of a fiduciary, as well as the ability to listen carefully to and work with a diverse array of individuals, families and organizations to identify shared values, develop common goals and achieve results.
As a volunteer, Michael has served on three dozen boards and advisory boards. He currently serves on the boards of the Momentous Institute, the Mike A. Myers Foundation, the National Center for Family Philanthropy, and TACA (The Arts Community Alliance), and the advisory boards of the Communities Foundation of Texas, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at The University of Texas at Austin, SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University, Hope Supply Co. and the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas.
Michael is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. He is an active member of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas and a past president of The Dallas Assembly and the Leadership Dallas Alumni Association. He and his wife, Amy, who also works in philanthropy, have two children.
