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Emil and Toby Meshberg Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Emil and Toby Meshberg Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$542kInternational$338kPhilanthropy$189kHuman Services$95kHousing & Shelter$56kEducation$44kReligion$31kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE LUSTER FOUNDATION$5,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$5,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION$5,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC$3,600
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC$3,500
THE NEW SHUL$3,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC$500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $15k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $10k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $10k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $4k → 20%BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $3k → 20%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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KS
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+54%

Still filing today

77%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $271k · revenue +39%
  • BH
    BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $187k · revenue +77%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • OH
    OPERATION HOPE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • CZ
    CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +62%
  • TC
    TIJUANA CHRISTIAN MISSION CITY OF REFUGE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +6%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
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
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
Beth Israel Medical Center

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…

Health
10
Northeast Medical Group Inc

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.

—
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $271,225 · HealthJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY…BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $186,590 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITALBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,500 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $10,600 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION F…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $154,910 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NE…+2 more: $3,000 · InternationalFEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $80,000 · OtherFEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $78,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREA…NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $57,750 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RES…LUSTER PRODUCTS BLACK HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,150 · OtherLUSTER PRODUCTS BLACK HER…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF WESTPORT WESTON NORWALK: $21,440 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDE…TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL: $12,630 · Other+12 more: $37,050 · Other+12 moreBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $56,000 · Human ServicesFairfield University: $40,000 · EducationYale University: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,250 · EducationTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $9,334 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,600 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Health$578,915International$332,910Other$312,020Human Services$56,000Education$44,250Community Improvement$30,000Arts & Culture$18,434

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $271,225 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $186,590 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $154,910 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $80,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $57,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES: $56,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield University: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUSTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $9,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC: $3,600 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $3,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIJUANA CHRISTIAN MISSION CITY OF REFUGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAISH GLOBAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlock Island Volunter Fire & Rescue Department (Inc): $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTHCARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $250 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.

Fairfield County's Co…Newman's Own Foundati…Connecticut Humanitie…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundThe Lundberg Family F…The Stewart & Constan…The Carl Marks Founda…William Caspar Graust…FjcSynchrony Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Emil and Toby Meshberg Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emil and Toby Meshberg Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 40 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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