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David & Inez Myers Foundation at a glance

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David & Inez Myers Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation")

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

60% of David & Inez Myers Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 44 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

29
’18
32
’19
40
’20
54
’21
45
’22
45
’23
44
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$25MYouth Development$7.0MReligion$6.1MEducation$6.0MArts & Culture$3.7MRecreation & Sports$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $7,487,471, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,103,971 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $616,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.9M
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$248M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$3,971,350
JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND$622,020
JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC$553,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$464,101
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$301,000
SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA$150,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND$130,000
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$100,000
CLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC$97,500
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND$92,500
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$90,000
JTA-MJL NEW CORP$90,000
ORT AMERICA INC$81,000
COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC$55,000
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$55,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $50k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $7k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $7k → 17%SENIOR TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY: $16k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 17%THE CENTERS: $17k → 17%CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $13k → 17%THE CENTERS: $13k → 17%THE CENTERS: $13k → 17%CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $9k → 17%CENTERS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $7k → 17%MANDEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $6k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $35k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC: $15k → 17%GETTING TO WE: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 17%SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $8k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 17%CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of David & Inez Myers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 88%.

David & Inez Myers Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 54 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
25

Total granted

$26M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+9%

Still filing today

93%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BB
    B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $6.4M · revenue +22%
  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +79%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • D
    DIGITALCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +273% · 37% of their budget
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $756k · revenue -28%
  • JF
    JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $502k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
2
Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life

The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…

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3
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
4
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
5
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
6
Partners in Torah of Cleveland Inc

To offer all Jews, regardless of affiliation, the opportunity to discover the Torah at their pace and schedule.

Human Services
7
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

—
8
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
9
The Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies Educational Foundation

To carry out the charitable, educational, and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland by promoting high quality jewish life-long learning opportunities regarding the study of judaism spiritually, historically, culturally,…

Education
10
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.

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11
The Cleveland Foundation

Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.

Philanthropy
12
The Cleveland Institute of Art

The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Getting to We. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $22,480,603 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,969,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC+4 more: $1,135,000 · PhilanthropyB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $6,370,000 · Youth DevelopmentB'NAI B'RITH …+3 more: $87,500 · Youth DevelopmentJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $3,084,628 · ReligionJEWISH EDUC…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $1,933,981 · ReligionJEWISH FAMI…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $350,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE …+5 more: $127,000 · ReligionHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $1,304,000 · OtherHEBREW ACADEMY OF…JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $904,500 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICA…FOUR COMMUNITY HILLEL HOUSE DBA HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $580,000 · OtherFOUR COMMUNITY HI…LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $492,500 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY…THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $865,000 · OtherTHE SHALOM HARTMA…JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $756,000 · OtherJEWISH AGENCY FOR…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $410,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,050,000 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND…+28 more: $2,348,231 · Other+28 moreFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,485,000 · EducationFRIENDS O…CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,300,500 · EducationCLEVELAND…JOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $502,000 · EducationJOSEPH & …COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $355,000 · EducationCOLLEGE N…CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $250,000 · EducationCLEVELAND…URSULINE COLLEGE: $200,000 · Education+9 more: $514,000 · Education+9 moreThe Musical Arts Association: $1,720,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $350,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $350,000 · Arts & Culture70 FACES MEDIA INC: $240,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $180,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $307,500 · Arts & CultureDIGITALC: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementJPRO NETWORK INC: $150,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $16,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$25,584,603Youth Development$6,457,500Religion$5,495,609Other$8,710,231Education$4,606,500Arts & Culture$3,147,500Community Improvement$2,166,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $22,480,603 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $6,370,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION CENTER OF CLEVELAND: $3,084,628 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetDIGITALC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,969,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $1,933,981 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $1,720,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,485,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $1,304,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,300,500 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $1,050,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $865,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $805,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $756,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOUR COMMUNITY HILLEL HOUSE DBA HILLEL AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $580,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $502,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $492,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $410,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $355,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $350,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $350,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $350,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD ORT INC: $250,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC: $240,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $235,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCLEVELAND HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $185,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $180,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJPRO NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $132,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $129,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY: $126,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $101,806 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $100,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND: $90,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH: $87,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Centers for Families and Children: $79,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINMOTION: $76,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $70,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPIANO INTERNATIONAL ASSOC OF NORTHERN OH: $62,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $60,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC: $58,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Cleveland Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Char and Chuck Fo…The George Gund Found…Jack Joseph & Morton …Treu Mart FundDominion Energy Chari…Mt Sinai Health Care …The Reinberger Founda…The Abington Foundati…The Albert B & Audrey…The Swagelok Foundati…
The Cleveland FoundationOH62.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Inez Myers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Inez Myers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David & Inez Myers Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David & Inez Myers Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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