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Sam & Karry Meshberg Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sam & Karry Meshberg Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$729k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$570k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.6MReligion$142kHealth$75kYouth Development$68kEducation$41kPhilanthropy$35kEnvironment$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
  • $250k+1 grant · $570k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING$570,000
BNAI TORAH CONGREGATION$117,200
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
WENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE$10,000
FIREFIGHTERS TO THE RESCUE$6,400
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+51%

Still filing today

73%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Inc
    3× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +112%
  • TM
    THE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • SP
    STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $68k · revenue +51%
  • CM
    COASTAL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +115%
  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +33%
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
2
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc

The mission of the Jupiter Medical Center Foundation, Inc. is to secure the financial resources required to sustain clinical excellence and quality of care at Jupiter Medical Center, Inc. & its affiliates.

Philanthropy
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
6
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
7
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Mjhs Medical Associates Pc

The purpose for which the corporation is formed is to practice the profession of medicine for affiliates of metropolitan jewish health system, inc., which provide medical and health services.

Health
10
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Los Angeles Cedars Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 30 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC: $1,100,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INCSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $68,100 · EducationSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC+3 more: $34,688 · EducationAdopt a Family Inc: $492,500 · Food & NutritionAdopt a Family IncBNAI TORAH CONGREGATION: $117,200 · OtherBNAI TORAH C…Individual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual g…CONGREGATION B'NAI JACOB: $17,585 · OtherCONGREGATION…THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $10,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $27,767 · Other+10 moreJupiter Medical Center Inc: $65,000 · HealthJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $13,000 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFIREFIGHTERS TO THE RESCUE INC: $27,800 · PhilanthropyTHE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $12,580 · Human ServicesTHE LOS ANGELES CEDARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,202,788Food & Nutrition$492,500Other$225,052Health$88,000Philanthropy$52,800Arts & Culture$40,000Human Services$12,580Community Improvement$5,000

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 budgetCENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC: $1,100,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $68,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWENATCHEE RIVER INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS TO THE RESCUE INC: $27,800 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCOASTAL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $12,580 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNCOAST HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $6,188 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CEDARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

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 Communal FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Center for Child Counseling Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–15%
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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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