· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $364k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $311k
- $250k+1 grant · $419k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODWARD AVENUE SHUL | $419,000 |
| BAIS REFEOL FOUNDATION | $234,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH LOAN FUND | $76,800 |
| YESHIVA DARCHEI TORAH | $36,200 |
| TZEDKAH ENHANCEMENT PROJECT | $36,000 |
| KOLLEL INSTITUTE OF GREATER DETROIT | $30,800 |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $26,600 |
| CHEDER LUBAVITCH | $25,300 |
| RABBINCAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA | $24,000 |
| THE SPOT FOR CHILDREN & S | $20,600 |
| YESHIVAS LUBAVITCH OF BALTIMORE | $20,000 |
| YESHIVA GEDOLAH FREE LOAN ACCOUNT | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
108 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE4× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue +57%
- DCDETROIT CHESED PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +166%
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $13k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- YGYESHIVA GEDOLA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $100k
- FOFriends of Beis Chana Tzfas Incone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1%
- FOFRIENDS OF NACHLAS SHIMONone grant, 2021 · $18k
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.
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.
Religious Teaching
Support of religious schools in Israel
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
To further jewish education in israel
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Religious School
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 204 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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