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Meisel 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 69
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$199k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Meisel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEducationCivil RightsOther
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 arriving3$8k0%
FY20243$2k33%
FY20233$3k33%
FY20225$8k60%
FY20213$2k33%
FY202017$24k53%
FY201939$27k18%
FY201869$68k35%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$123kHealth$39kReligion$24kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$6kYouth Development$4kEducation$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 55 grantees
All grantees of Meisel Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Talbert House$10,75080%
Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc$5,00010%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$1,10020%
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation$1,10020%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$1,00010%
Center for Respite Care Inc$1,00010%
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park$70010%
March of Dimes Inc$67530%
Lighthouse Youth Services$65020%
Freestore Foodbank Inc$64220%
Women Helping Women$55030%
Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati$55020%
American Heart Association Inc$51520%
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education$50010%
Ohio Cancer Research Associates$50010%
The Childrens Hospital$50010%
Art Academy of Cincinnati$50010%
Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home$47940%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati$45020%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$44030%
Humane World for Animals Inc$40030%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$40010%
United States Fund for Unicef$40030%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$3703n/a
Art Opportunities Inc$35010%
Pink Ribbon Good Inc$35010%
Josh Cares Inc$35030%
Jewish Family Services$31620%
Cancer Support Community - Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky$30030%
Cedar Village Foundation$30030%
Easter Seals Inc$30020%
Chosen People Ministries Inc$3001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$27010%
Syria Shriners$27010%
American Jewish Committee$25010%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation$25010%
Cincinnati Works$25010%
Syrian Shriners$2351n/a
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism$2001n/a
Tender Mercies Inc$20010%
Fernside Inc a Center for Grieving Children$20010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$15020%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$15020%
National Wildlife Federation$13520%
Cincinnati Museum Center$11010%
Over the Rhine Community Housing$1001n/a
Ort America Inc$10010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$10010%
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc$10020%
American Diabetes Association$6520%
Multiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc$5010%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$5010%
Judicial Watch Inc$3510%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$3010%
Smithsonian Institution$1910%

Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTalbert House: $10,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Respite Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $675 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Youth Services: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $642 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Helping Women: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Shares of Greater Cincinnati: $550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $515 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Cancer Research Associates: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Academy of Cincinnati: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home: $479 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArt Opportunities Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPink Ribbon Good Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJosh Cares Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family Services: $316 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Support Community - Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Village Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSyria Shriners: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Cincinnati Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Works: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTender Mercies Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFernside Inc a Center for Grieving Children: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Museum Center: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrt America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $65 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Association of America Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Parkinson Disease Assoc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $35 over 1y, 0.0% 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 50.

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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.

John a Schroth Family Char TrPA30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Marge & Charles J Schott 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 Family Foundation

How much does Meisel Family Foundation give?
Meisel Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $8,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Meisel Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Health (17%), Religion (10%).
Who are Meisel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Talbert House ($11k), Foundation for Neurologic Diseases Inc ($5k), The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ($1k).
Does Meisel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Meisel Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Meisel Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John a Schroth Family Char Tr, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent.
Where is Meisel Family Foundation based?
Meisel 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 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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