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Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$575kEducation$528kInternational$464kPhilanthropy$350kFood & Nutrition$338kHealth$252kCivil Rights$57kRecreation & Sports$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET$45,000
NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE$38,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$36,000
AMIT$30,000
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH$25,000
AMERICAN FREINDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$18,000
SHARSHERET$13,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$10,000
SIMON WISENTHAL CENTER$8,500
Individual grant recipient$8,500
PARK VIEW MINYAN INC$7,000
young israel of hollywood$7,000
CHAI LIFELINE$5,000
THE AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$4,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $36k → 6%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $54k → 9%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $25k → 6%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $54k → 9%AMERICAN FREINDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25k → 17%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $25k → 6%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $55k → 7%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $25k → 6%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $45k → 7%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 9%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $38k → 7%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 9%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $53k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $35k → 7%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $50k → 9%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $32k → 17%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $38k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $35k → 7%WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $27k → 9%UJA FEDERATION OF NY: $30k → 17%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $32k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $35k → 7%FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH: $25k → 17%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $29k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $30k → 7%FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH: $25k → 17%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $28k → 13%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET: $30k → 7%FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH: $25k → 17%FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH: $25k → 17%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $26k → 13%YOUNG ISRAEL NEW ROCHELLE: $26k → 9%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $26k → 13%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $25k → 13%NEVE MICHAEL CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $25k → 13%AMIT: $43k → 17%AMIT: $35k → 17%AMIT: $35k → 17%AMIT: $30k → 17%AMIT: $25k → 17%AMIT: $25k → 17%AMIT: $25k → 17%AMIT: $25k → 17%THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 45 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
20

Total granted

$2.3M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+32%

Still filing today

49%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $303k · revenue +169%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $232k · revenue +39%
  • NM
    Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • RI
    RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HOSPITAL AT MONTIFIORE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +253%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
The Jerusalem Connection
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5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
10
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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12
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Communal Fund; the most unlike its peers is Park View Minyan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $385,000 · OtherWESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOLAMIT: $243,000 · OtherAMITYOUNG ISRAEL NEW ROCHELLE: $91,000 · OtherYOUNG ISRAEL NEW ROCHELLEYOUNG ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $50,000 · OtherCAMP YAVNEH INC: $41,100 · Other+40 more: $398,130 · Other+40 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $303,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEK…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $231,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FE…+2 more: $20,500 · PhilanthropyNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc: $228,500 · InternationalNeve Michael Childre…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $141,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $43,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM FOUNDATION…+5 more: $30,500 · International+5 moreFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $100,000 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $68,400 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $23,500 · HealthMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $7,000 · HealthBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25,000 · EducationThe Frisch School: $17,500 · EducationEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $15,000 · EducationKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · EducationSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $52,000 · Arts & CultureMASBIA: $15,944 · Food & NutritionHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,208,230Philanthropy$555,100International$473,000Health$208,900Education$157,500Arts & Culture$52,000Food & Nutrition$20,944

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $303,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $231,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNeve Michael Childrens Village Inc: $228,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $141,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $68,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP YAVNEH INC: $41,100 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARK VIEW MINYAN INC: $18,600 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frisch School: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASBIA: $15,944 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $13,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $12,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAYAL EL CHAYAL INC: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFSHD SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT UNIVERSITY OF MD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING IS LOVING INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds CAMP YAVNEH INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK VIEW MINYAN INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Frisch School ↗
  • Who funds MASBIA ↗
  • Who funds EZRA ACADEMY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundFjcThe Ari & Cheryl Pear…United Jewish Communi…Jewish National Fund …The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…The Silberman Aqua Fa…The Lee and Cheryl La…The Jewish Federation…Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Community Foun…
Jewish Communal FundNY28.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan S and Leon Meyers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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