· Private foundation
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 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMITCHELL'S PLACE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $504k · revenue +107%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE3× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +41%- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- JAJAGUAR ATHLETIC FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +77%
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +7%- APALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -22%
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.
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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.
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To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
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How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 79 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 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 JAGUAR ATHLETIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Citizens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL 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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert a Meisler Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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