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Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation

Further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$535k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$511k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$21M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$386k14%
FY202410$635k50%
FY202310$793k20%
FY20229$766k44%
FY201910$346k60%
FY20186$204kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.1MEducation$792kFood & Nutrition$590kArts & Culture$468kHealth$461kHuman Services$108kEmployment$90kCommunity Improvement$75kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater Cleveland$688,00072%
The Cleveland Institute of Art$383,00041%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$325,00034%
The Musical Arts Association$300,00010%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$280,00020%
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$263,20950%
Case Western Reserve University$225,00030%
Berea College$162,50070%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$130,00010%
Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc$100,00040%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater Cleveland$688,00072%
The Cleveland Institute of Art$383,00041%
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation$325,00034%
The Musical Arts Association$300,00010%
Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc$280,00020%
Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio$263,20950%
Case Western Reserve University$225,00030%
Berea College$162,50070%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$130,00010%
Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc$100,00040%
Youth Opportunities Unlimited$50,00050%
University Hospitals Health System Inc$50,00010%
Chn Housing Partners$30,00020%
Menorah Park Foundation$30,00011%
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company$20,00022%
Ort America Inc$20,00010%
Hanna Perkins School$10,00011%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio$10,00020%
The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage$10,00010%
Teach for America Inc$10,00010%
Menorah Park Center for Senior Living$9,00010%
Cu Boulder Hillel Foundation$9,00011%
Cleveland Chesed Center$7,50011%
Center for Arts-Inspired Learning$7,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Cleveland: $688,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetThe Cleveland Institute of Art: $383,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCuyahoga Community College Foundation: $325,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $280,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio: $263,209 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBerea College: $162,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $130,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetManufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity Hospitals Health System Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChn Housing Partners: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMenorah Park Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Unusual Suspects Theatre Company: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOrt America Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHanna Perkins School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMenorah Park Center for Senior Living: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCu Boulder Hillel Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCleveland Chesed Center: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Arts-Inspired Learning: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 Federation of …The Cleveland Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…The George Gund Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation

How much does Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation give?
Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $511,000, out of $534,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Cleveland ($688k), The Cleveland Institute of Art ($383k), Cuyahoga Community College Foundation ($325k).
Does Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Cleveland Foundation, The Reinberger Foundation.
Where is Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation based?
Meisel & Pesses Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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