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Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ROSLYN MILSTEIN MEYER AND JEROME MEYER FOUNDATION R&J MEYER TRUSTEES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLIMATEHAVEN | $50,000 |
| CT VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CT | $25,000 |
| ONLINE JOURNALISM PROJECT | $25,000 |
| LEGACY THEATRE | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS | $15,000 |
| STONY CREEK MUSEUM | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NHNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC3× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +34%
- OJOnline Journalism Project Incorporated6× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +856%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC4× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- CCCity Center Of New Yorkone grant, 2019 · $75k
- SFSoundview Family YMCAone grant, 2017 · $50k
- UTURU THE RIGHT TO BE INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -96%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
Connecticut humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society. through grant funding and capacity building, cth strives to ensure the public humanities will continue to inspire storytelling,…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
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.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Community health center (chc) is building a world class primary care organization, improving health outcomes and building healthier communities through clinical excellence, research and innovation, and training the next generation. chc is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 87 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 SURPRISE LAKE CAMP ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds Online Journalism Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONTINUUM INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds URU THE RIGHT TO BE INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Yale University · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc · The Sassafras 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 Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Liberty Community Services — 78% of income from government
- Youth Continuum Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Climatehaven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Children's Preschool Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 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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