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Ronny & Elizabeth Meier Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ronny & Elizabeth Meier Foundation Inc

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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$34kInternational$2kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$1kHuman Services$650Food & Nutrition$180Education$167Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$36
Median grant
2
States reached
$592
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun$5,658
Congregation Rinat Yisrael$375
YOUNG ISRAEL OF FAIR LAWN$180
HADASSAH$54
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF BERGEN COU$36
CHAI LIFELINE$25
Friends of Lubavitch$18
CHILDRENS VILLAGE OF JERUSALEM$18
GIOH$10
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Neeman Foundation: $2k → 8%ASHAR: $130 → 14%MAGEN DAVIV ADOM: $750 → 17%Hebron Fund: $54 → 20%Project Ezrah: $307 → 7%CHAI LIFELINE: $250 → 11%CHABAD AT HARVARD: $2k → 8%Magen David Adom: $72 → 17%Hebron Fund: $36 → 20%PROJECT EZRA: $170 → 7%MAGEN DAVIV ADOM: $72 → 17%Hebron Fund: $36 → 20%Project Ezrah: $163 → 7%PROJECT EZRA: $118 → 7%Jewish Federation of Northern NJ: $1k → 7%The Frisch School: $75 → 7%Sinai Schools: $36 → 7%Congregation Bnai Yeshurun: $6k → 7%Congregation Bnai Yeshurun: $6k → 7%Congregation Bnai Yeshurun: $5k → 7%Congregation Bnai Yeshurun: $3k → 7%ORTHODOX UNION: $72 → 17%Congregation Bnai Yeshurun: $3k → 7%YACHAD: $54 → 17%Congregation Bnai Yeshurun: $2k → 7%YAD SARAH: $180 → 17%Congregation Rinat Yisrael: $2k → 7%CHAI LIFELINE: $36 → 17%Congregation Rinat Yisrael: $820 → 7%Chai Lifeline: $36 → 17%Congregation Rinat Yisrael: $812 → 7%CHAI LIFELINE: $36 → 17%Congregation Rinat Yisrael: $617 → 7%Congregation Rinat Yisrael: $475 → 7%HADASSAH: $54 → 17%Congregation Rinat Yisrael: $375 → 7%HADASSAH: $36 → 17%PROJECT YECHI: $220 → 7%JUST ONE LIFE: $180 → 17%Mikvah Association of Teaneck: $200 → 7%ORTHODOX UNION: $72 → 17%LEKET ISRAEL: $180 → 7%Orthodox Union: $54 → 17%Friends of Lubavitch: $150 → 7%Rabbi Prusansky Discretionary Fund: $100 → 7%Friends of Lubavitch: $72 → 7%HADASSAH: $54 → 7%YOUNG ISRAEL OF FAIR LAWN: $180 → 7%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 14 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$33k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+39%

Still filing today

29%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • PE
    Project Ezrah Needs Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $470 · revenue +48%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $383 · revenue +43%
  • HF
    HEBRON FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $162 · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • NE
    NE EMAN FOUNDATION USAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • CH
    CHABAD HOUSE OF HARVARD SQUARE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • MO
    MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
2
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
Sherit Isroel
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5
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
6
Nefesh Chaim Inc
Religion
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
8
American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
10
Zichron Tzvi Elimelech

Assists thousands of needy individuals, families and multiplecharities in Israel and North America.

—
11
Jewish Caring Network Gevuras Yarden Inc

assistance with serious illness

Health
12
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hebron Fund Inc. 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 32 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BNAI YESHURUN: $25,117 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI YESHURUNCONGREGATION RINAT YISRAEL: $4,877 · OtherCONGREGATION RINAT YISRAELCHABAD HOUSE OF HARVARD SQUARE INC: $1,800 · Other+18 more: $4,166 · Other+18 moreNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,800 · InternationalJUST ONE LIFE INC: $180 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $72 · International+1 more: $66 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyProject Ezrah Needs Inc: $470 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $162 · PhilanthropyCHAI LIFELINE INC: $383 · HealthPROJECT YECHI INC: $220 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $180 · HealthThe Frisch School: $75 · Education
Other$35,960International$2,118Philanthropy$1,632Health$783Education$75

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 budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Ezrah Needs Inc: $470 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $383 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT YECHI INC: $220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $162 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frisch School: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS VILLAGE OF JERUSALEM INC: $66 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Ezrah Needs Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT YECHI INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frisch School ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS VILLAGE OF JERUSALEM INC ↗

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.

The Blumenfeld Family…Jewish Communal FundFjcKoyfman Family Founda…M D Katz Foundation I…The Arthur & Joyce Fe…Jewish Federation of …Daniel and Miriam Mic…Ma Tov Charitable Fou…Stern Family Foundati…Hahn Family Foundatio…Granit Foundation
The Blumenfeld Family FoundationNJ20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blumenfeld Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Koyfman Family Foundation Inc · M D Katz Foundation Inc · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Daniel and Miriam Michael Foundation · Ma Tov Charitable Foundation Co Sam Vogel · Stern Family Foundation · Hahn Family Foundation Inc · Granit 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ronny & Elizabeth Meier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronny & Elizabeth Meier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Frisch School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 32 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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