California · Private foundation
Gerald and Merle Measer 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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,125
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $102k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Gerald and Merle Measer 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; $5k 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 | 19 | $219k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $111k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $130k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $112k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $87k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $104k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $99k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $141k | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westside Neighborhood School | $327,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Telluride Mountain School Inc | $114,150 | 4 | 2% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $90,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephen S Wise Temple | $35,515 | 8 | n/a |
| Seas of Trees | $26,000 | 2 | 32% |
| Geffen Playhouse Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ucla Health System Auxiliary | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation with peer funders
About Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation
- How much does Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation give?
- Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $275,435 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (88%), Arts & Culture (3%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westside Neighborhood School ($327k), The Archer School for Girls Inc ($120k), Telluride Mountain School Inc ($114k).
- Does Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald and Merle Measer 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 Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation based?
- Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation is based in CA.
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