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Meyer Handelman Fund
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k35 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF NEW ROCHELLE | $12,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL - FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $8,000 |
| CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS INC | $8,000 |
| KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART | $6,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE APPEAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FUND OF WESTCHESTER | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| UNITED HEBREW GERIATRIC CENTER | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $3,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE & HOME CARE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| NEW ROCHELLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Putnam Childrens Discovery Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOME FOR AGED HEBREWS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ROCHELLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds SCARSDALE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAMNORTHERN WESTCHESTER WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FAMILIES THROUGH ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM CHILDRENS DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Charles S Raizen Foundation Inc · Glff Inc · Field Hall Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Meyer Handelman Fund 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.
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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