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Edward & Sandra Meyer Foundation Inc at a glance

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Edward & Sandra Meyer 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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$16MEducation$15MCivil Rights$526kHousing & Shelter$95kInternational$95kArts & Culture$53kReligion$38kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT SUNSHINE INC$10,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC$10,000
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
PA
VA
TN
DC
AL
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 15 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
28

Total granted

$16M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+39%

Still filing today

87%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TL
    THE LORD'S PLACE INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $95k · revenue +84%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +26%
  • MT
    MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15M · revenue +50%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $525k · revenue +70%
  • PL
    PECONIC LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +306%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of the Moving Image. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $16,167,500 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE+24 more: $123,408 · OtherCornell University: $15,145,000 · EducationCornell University+4 more: $29,500 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $525,000 · Civil RightsTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · International+3 more: $4,600 · InternationalNew York Historical Society: $18,600 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $18,420 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5,724 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,400 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $4,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyATLANTIC GOLF CLUB EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$16,290,908Education$15,174,500Civil Rights$525,000Housing & Shelter$95,000International$79,600Arts & Culture$52,644Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $15,145,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $525,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $18,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $18,420 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5,724 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE TO WORLD INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Edward & Sandra Meyer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Sandra Meyer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to Edward & Sandra Meyer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Edward & Sandra Meyer Foundation Inc 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 44 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-PF 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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