· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARD UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA | $50,000 |
| THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $50,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $43,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA | $3,000 |
| UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM - UCLA | $1,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $500 |
| JDRF | $250 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY22–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +31% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WNWESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $327k · revenue +117%
- TATHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +16%
- TMTELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $114k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UHUCLA HEALTH SYSTEM AUXILIARYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -15%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEALone grant, 2024 · $3k
OPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +133%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
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.…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 60 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
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.
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEAS OF TREES ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds UCLA HEALTH SYSTEM AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Telluride Historical Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds OPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINFILM ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY DANCE LA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald and Merle Measer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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