· Private foundation
Emil and Toby Meshberg Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $58,000 |
| JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $52,300 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $30,500 |
| WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM OF MIAMI BEACH | $5,175 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION | $5,000 |
| THE LUSTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC | $3,600 |
| THE NEW SHUL | $3,500 |
| BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- JHJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $271k · revenue +32%
- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2022 · $187k · revenue +74%
- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- OHOPERATION HOPE INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CZCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +62%
- TCTIJUANA CHRISTIAN MISSION CITY OF REFUGEone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +6%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tijuana Christian Mission City of Refuge. 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 51 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 40 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 JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds TIJUANA CHRISTIAN MISSION CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AISH GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Block Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc) ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lundberg Family Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · The Carl Marks Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Fjc · Synchrony Foundation
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 Emil and Toby Meshberg 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc — 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.