New York · Private foundation
Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $339k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $293k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $470k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $333k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $319k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $241k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $269k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $250k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $251k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westchester Day School | $385,000 | 8 | n/a |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $303,000 | 8 | 1% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $231,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc | $228,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Sharsheret Inc | $68,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Israel of Hollywood Inc | $50,000 | 8 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $43,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp Yavneh Inc | $41,100 | 8 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($585k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Communal Fund · Fjc · The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc · United Jewish Community of Broward County Inc · Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Silberman Aqua Family Foundation · The Lee and Cheryl Lasher Family Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
How this is measured
About Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation
- How much does Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation give?
- Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $338,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Education (20%), International (17%).
- Who are Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westchester Day School ($385k), American Friends of Leket Israel Inc ($303k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($232k).
- Does Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joan S and Leon Meyers 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 Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, The Ari & Cheryl Pearl Foundation Inc.
- Where is Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation based?
- Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation is based in NY.
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