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Meidar Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Meidar Family Charitable Trust

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$428kArts & Culture$250kEducation$175kHealth$120kRecreation & Sports$105k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI: $18k → 7%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%MACCABI USASPORTS FOR ISRAEL: $100k → 22%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $20k → 8%BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%MIAMI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25k → 15%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%HOPE FOR HEROISM: $100k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI: $10k → 7%MACCABI USASPORTS FOR ISRAEL: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $150k → 17%ADRIENNE ARSCHT CENTER FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100k → 17%ADRIENNE ARSCHT CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $50k → 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

WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
NC
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$658k · 4 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$658k
$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-40%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +53%
  • AA
    ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue -48%
  • MU
    MACCABI USA INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue -63%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +96%
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • BF
    Brothers for Lifegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +233%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
University of Miami
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3
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
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
University of Judaism Foundation
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8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $400,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $28,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INCADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUN…Brothers for Life: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for LifeMIAMI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIET…University of Miami: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of M…The Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 · EducationThe Trustees of…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $25,000 · OtherBAR ILAN UNIV…MACCABI USA INC: $104,913 · Recreation & SportsMACCABI USA…LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $20,000 · Health
International$428,000Arts & Culture$250,000Education$150,000Other$125,000Recreation & Sports$104,913Health$20,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $104,913 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAR ILAN UNIVERSITY IN ISRAEL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Meidar Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meidar Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 12 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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