· Private foundation
Henry & Louise Mermelstein Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $60,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $826,631 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $766,391 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shvu Return Inc. | $20,000 |
| Shidduch Chicago Inc, | $10,000 |
| Tzur Foundation | $6,500 |
| Tomchei Shabbos of BP | $5,000 |
| Torah Center of Chestnut Ridge | $3,000 |
| CATV | $3,000 |
| Keren Chasanim of Saad L'Talmid | $3,000 |
| Kollel Avi Ezri Elad | $3,000 |
| Cong. Ahavas Tzedakah V'Chesed | $1,500 |
| American Friends of Ramat Bais Shemesh | $1,200 |
| Friends of Zichron Meir | $1,000 |
| Torah Center of America | $1,000 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Yosef Aryeh | $1,000 |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Patterson | $500 |
| Botoshon | $360 |
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
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
- FOFriends of Brisker Yeshiva2× · 2022–2023 · $150k
- NANovominsk Alumnai Fund2× · 2022–2023 · $31k
- KAKollel Avi Ezri Elad3× · 2022–2024 · $11k
Funded once
- YTYeshivas Tiferes Chaim Aryehone grant, 2023 · $300k
- YTYeshiva Tiferes Chaim Aryehone grant, 2022 · $300k
- CACong. Adas Yaakov Novominskone grant, 2023 · $28k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2022–2024.
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 2022–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 50 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.