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Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family 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.

$262k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $262k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’17
12
’18
21
’19
13
’20
17
’21
7
’22
5
’23
2
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$5.0MArts & Culture$1.6MEducation$919kPhilanthropy$574kCivil Rights$227kHealth$188kCrime & Legal$155kHuman Services$100kInternational$62kOther$555k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $222k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMIC RELIEF INC$140,000
SITE SANTA FE$82,160
REIMAGINE INC$25,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$5,000
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION$5,000
PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%REIMAGINE INC: $25k → 10%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%ON THE RISE: $5k → 8%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%JCC MANHATTAN: $30k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
NM
DC
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 19 repeat orgs$983k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
41

Total granted

$8.0M
$931k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+23%

Still filing today

84%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +34%
  • SS
    SITE SANTA FE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $998k · revenue +65%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $530k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • DM
    DEEP MEDICINCE CIRCLE
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • IJ
    IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +28%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $119k · revenue +86%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%78%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,705

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
44/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $4,975,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCSITE SANTA FE — $998,028 · Arts & CultureSITE SANTA FEWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $500,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF A…+7 more — $96,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $530,000 · EducationETHICAL CUL…THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON — $148,500 · EducationTHE HUN SCH…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $125,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTE…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …+6 more — $65,000 · Education+6 moreJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $296,932 · PhilanthropyCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US — $265,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $12,500 · PhilanthropyDEEP MEDICINCE CIRCLE — $300,000 · OtherDEEP MEDIC…THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN — $65,000 · OtherTHE UNIVER…IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $150,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT …THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $30,000 · OtherCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Other+31 more — $291,373 · Other+31 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $225,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $1,500 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $118,750 · HealthDeep Medicine Circle — $50,000 · HealthBIGVISION Foundation — $7,500 · Health+3 more — $11,800 · Health
Youth Development$4,975,000Arts & Culture$1,594,028Education$918,500Philanthropy$574,432Other$871,373Civil Rights$226,500Health$188,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $4,975,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetSITE SANTA FE — $998,028 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $530,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $500,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $296,932 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US — $265,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON — $148,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $118,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDeep Medicine Circle — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREIMAGINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANZI FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetON THE RISE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAchilles International Inc — $18,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC — $10,238 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIGVISION Foundation — $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS — $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCreative Growth Art Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LEADERS STRONG CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTierra del Sol Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENCOUNTER PROGRAMS INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Morton H Meyerson Fam…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…FjcCombined Jewish Phila…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Vanguard Charitable E…The Chicago Community…Baird Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…
Morton H Meyerson Family FoundationTX25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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