· Private foundation
Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of ALAN AND AMY MELTZER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $510k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
- $250k+1 grant · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $315,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $108,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF BROWARD COUNTY | $87,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| DCAC | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HILLEL | $49,002 |
| BULLIS SCHOOL | $46,000 |
| JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $35,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $33,000 |
| WRESTLE LIKE A GIRL | $29,100 |
| SHABACH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D FKA JDRF | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D4× · 2020–2023 · $274k · revenue +42%
- AUAmerican University Hillel Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $184k · revenue +87%
- MYMONTGOMERY YOUTH WRESTLING LEAGUE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $182k · revenue +81% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- JTJDRF T1D FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250k
- CRCROSSROADS - RIDE FOR KIDSone grant, 2022 · $125k
- BTBEAT THE STREETSone grant, 2021 · $55k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
Ronald c. wornick jewish day school develops students who are socially and academically prepared to meet their full potential as engaged leaders committed to a life steeped in jewish ethics and values.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wrestling to Beat the Streets Dc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 193 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds American University Hillel Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY YOUTH WRESTLING LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds BULLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds DCAC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Wrestle Like a Girl Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CAMP AND CONFERENCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Conservancy Guardians USA Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds OHR HATZAFUN PRODUCTIONS D/B/A HIDDEN LIGHT INSTITUTE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Duber Family Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jewish Community Centers of South Broward Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Complete Player Charity Ltd — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery — 3% of income from government
- The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc — 2% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Adventist Healthcare Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.