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Herbert a Meisler 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MPMITCHELL'S PLACE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $504k · revenue +124%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE3× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +41%- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +57%
Funded once
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +7%- APALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -22%
- JAJAGUAR ATHLETIC FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +60%
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.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
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,…
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.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
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…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 79 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 MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE AREA JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Mobile Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JAGUAR ATHLETIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · The Ben May Charitable Trust Hancock Whitney Bank Successor Trustee · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Lisa Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Joy M & James Grodnick Charitable Founda Tion · Ws Foundation Inc Blacksher White-Spunner · Dog Hill Foundation · The Hyman Foundation · The Catranis Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor 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.
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