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Meh Family Foundation Inc

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.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$428kPublic Benefit$25kCrime & Legal$20kHuman Services$11kEnvironment$10kEducation$10kHealth$7kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$645k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MESIVTA TIFERES SHMUEL ALEXSANDER$50,000
NECHOMAS YISROEL$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%AVIHEM INC: $5k → 20%WE ARE YOUR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 20%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.
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 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
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Ezreinu Inc
Health
4
Zichron Yaakov Yitzchok Inc
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5
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Hahaim Yeshivat Shalom Inc
Education
7
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
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9
Avodat Avraham Inc
Religion
10
Bais Yehuda Perach Rochel Foundation
Public Benefit
11
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
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12
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vyazreim Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel. 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

10 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. 10 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MESIVTA TIFERES SHMUEL ALEXSANDER: $50,000 · OtherMESIVTA TIFERES SHMUEL ALEXSANDERCONGREGATION AVNEI ZEDEK: $36,000 · OtherCONGREGATION AVNEI ZEDEKYESHIVA SHALSHELET BAIS YAAKOV: $36,000 · OtherYESHIVA SHALSHELET BAIS YAAKOVCONGREGATION KEREN HAGEMACH: $30,000 · OtherCONGREGATION KEREN HAGEMACHCONGREGATION ATERES HATORAH OHEL YA: $25,000 · OtherNECHOMAS YISROEL: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNEI YERUSHALAYIM: $22,500 · OtherCONGREGATION KHAL TORAS CHAIM VIZNI: $19,920 · Other+38 more: $233,320 · Other+38 moreVYAZREIM INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitHASAGAH INC: $10,000 · EducationWe Are Your Children Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesAVIHEM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $7,200 · HealthKOLLEL DIVREI YOEL D'SATMAR BP: $5,000 · ReligionTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$477,740Public Benefit$25,000Education$10,000Human Services$10,000Health$7,200Religion$5,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVYAZREIM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHASAGAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetREFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES: $7,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKOLLEL DIVREI YOEL D'SATMAR BP: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWe Are Your Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAVIHEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEzras Cholim Yad Ephraim Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REISMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $720 over 1y, 1.2% 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 VYAZREIM INC ↗
  • Who funds TZEDEK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HASAGAH INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUAH HELPLINE INCDBA REFUAH RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds KOLLEL DIVREI YOEL D'SATMAR BP ↗
  • Who funds We Are Your Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds AVIHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE 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.

The Ojc FundNY47.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Simcha Dsassov · Brucha Vyehoshua Foundation Trust · Bochner Foundation · Chaim Maleh Foundation · Zelig and Rifky Weiss Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · A&E Hauer Family Foundation · Moshe Eichler Fund Inc · Rockstone · Bzl Foundation

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 Meh Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meh Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Meh Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Meh Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 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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