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Myers 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.

$668k
Granted FY2019
11
Grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
38%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of Myers Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Pittsburgh, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Myers Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $668k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’18
7
’19
4
’20
1
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$47,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 10
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Total assets, FY2019
$325
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 38% of the organizations Myers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20198$608k38%
FY201810$361kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.1MPhilanthropy$732kEducation$200kHuman Services$156kYouth Development$140kReligion$138kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kInternational$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Association on Aging$155,00030%
The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc$100,0002n/a
Congregation Beth Shalom$75,0003n/a
Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center Beth Jacob Inc$47,5001n/a
The Peace Initiative Inc$25,0001n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$10,00020%
All Hands Israel Inc$10,00021%
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc$10,00020%
V-Day$5,00010%
National Council of Jewish Women Pittsburgh Section$1,25010%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

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 Greater PittsburghPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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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.

About Myers Family Foundation

How much does Myers Family Foundation give?
Myers Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $667,500 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Myers Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (43%), Philanthropy (30%), Education (8%).
Who are Myers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Jewish Association on Aging ($155k), The Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc ($100k), Congregation Beth Shalom ($75k).
Does Myers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Myers 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 Myers Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Myers Family Foundation based?
Myers Family Foundation is based in PA.

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 20 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 2019, released 2019. 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 FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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