Michigan · Private foundation
Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2025
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $419,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 98
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 88 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $715k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $891k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 90 | $915k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 98 | $852k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodward Avenue Shul | $1,484,506 | 5 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Darchei Torah | $144,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $126,780 | 3 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Service | $57,180 | 4 | 0% |
| Matan Bseter | $50,560 | 3 | 6% |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch | $46,580 | 3 | 1% |
| Aish Hatorah Detroit | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Beis Chana Tzfas Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Detroit Chesed Project | $20,430 | 5 | 2% |
| Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 72 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodward Avenue Shul | $1,484,506 | 5 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Darchei Torah | $144,200 | 5 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $126,780 | 3 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Service | $57,180 | 4 | 0% |
| Matan Bseter | $50,560 | 3 | 6% |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch | $46,580 | 3 | 1% |
| Aish Hatorah Detroit | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Beis Chana Tzfas Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Detroit Chesed Project | $20,430 | 5 | 2% |
| Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congreation Emunas Yisroel | $15,260 | 4 | n/a |
| Hillel Academy | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hatzalah of Michigan | $14,580 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends of Derech Chochma Inc | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Torah Schools for Israel | $12,798 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Heritage Foundation | $12,600 | 3 | 6% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of Sarasota and Manatee Counties Inc | $10,360 | 2 | n/a |
| Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak INC | $10,203 | 2 | 16% |
| Congregation Bnai Israel | $9,181 | 2 | n/a |
| Ahavas Chessed Bikur Cholim Inc | $7,485 | 4 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Gedola of Detroit | $7,480 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Yosef | $7,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $5,680 | 5 | 0% |
| Yad Ezra | $4,626 | 5 | 0% |
| Arachim America Inc | $4,180 | 3 | 0% |
| Yagdil Torah Inc | $3,960 | 2 | 1% |
| Yeka Girls | $3,650 | 3 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yad Eliezer | $3,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Yad Malka Inc | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Simcha | $3,240 | 5 | n/a |
| Temple Beth El | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friendship Circle | $2,160 | 2 | n/a |
| Lubavitch of Wisconsin Inc | $2,160 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshivas Bircas Hatorah Inc | $1,980 | 2 | 0% |
| Yechida | $1,980 | 2 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $1,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Khal Chasedei Lel0v | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Hashviis Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Adat Shalom Synagogue | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| National Council of Jewish Women Michig | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of | $1,760 | 4 | n/a |
| Jewish Resource Center | $1,360 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem Inc | $1,360 | 3 | 0% |
| Jarc | $1,180 | 4 | 0% |
| Tzidkat Josef Naphtali | $1,080 | 3 | n/a |
| Arachim Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hace | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $900 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Community Kollel Inc | $720 | 3 | n/a |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $680 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Hatzolah Ashdod Darom | $680 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $540 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shul | $540 | 2 | n/a |
| Simchas Yom Tov Inc | $540 | 3 | 0% |
| Aliyos Shlomo | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Ponovez Israel Inc | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Alyn Hospitalinc | $360 | 2 | 0% |
| Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva | $320 | 1 | n/a |
| Zichron Menachem Inc | $205 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| Hebrew Our Way | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesorah Heritage Foundation | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Migdal OHR | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| United Tiberias Institutions Relief Society Inc | $180 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jewish Dental Clinic | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| The Colt Trust Inc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Childrens Village of Jerusalem Inc | $72 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Rodeph Sholom | $72 | 1 | n/a |
| Tomchei Tzedaka Corp | $54 | 1 | 0% |
| Ezer Mizion | $36 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 131 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Meer Family Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Borsand Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Detroit · Jewish Communal Fund · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Ojc Fund · Marvin Berlin Foundation
How this is measured
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About Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation
- How much does Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation give?
- Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation reported 89 grants totaling $1,252,295 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 98 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (78%), Education (5%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Woodward Avenue Shul ($1.5M), Yeshivas Darchei Torah ($144k), Yeshivath Beth Yehudah ($127k).
- Does Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Meer Family Foundation, Ahavas Avraham Foundation, United Jewish Foundation.
- Where is Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation based?
- Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation is based in MI.
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