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The Judith and Marshall Meyer 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.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$226kEducation$172kReligion$136kCivil Rights$119kInternational$26kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$14kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$939k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY INC$15,280
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$10,000
SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$10,000
SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE INC$8,000
COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC KETCHUM SUN VALL$7,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
FAR AND WISE INC$5,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$5,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$5,000
BETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION$4,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$3,000
THE LENFEST INST FOR JOURNALISM SPE ASSET FUND OF$2,500
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$2,000
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$1,845
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUMANE BORDERS INC: $150 → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER CAROLINAS CHAPTER: $250 → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100 → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%COMFORT CASES INC: $200 → 8%COMFORT CASES INC: $150 → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $200 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $188 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $150 → 14%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $150 → 17%SELFHELP HOME INC: $200 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $500 → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $25 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MT
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IL
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MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
NE
MO
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MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$558k · 45 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
49

Total granted

$558k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

78%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +32%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +16%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue +28%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CU
    CORNELL UNIVERSITY - CORNELL LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
11
Loyola University of Chicago

We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Theatre Ariel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesDance Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsImmigrant Worker SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/108
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,457

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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
61/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY INC — $84,380 · OtherWOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY INCSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $76,862 · OtherSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCCOLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYBETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATION — $45,860 · OtherBETH DAVID REFORM CONGREGATIONANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - PHILADELPHIA — $31,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - PHILADELPHIAAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE - PHILADELPHIASOUTHERN — $20,250 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE - PHILADELPHIASOUTHERN+47 more — $50,333 · Other+47 moreSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC — $56,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFER…BARNARD COLLEGE — $46,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGEThe Community Library Association Inc — $19,000 · EducationThe Community Library Asso…FARWISE INC — $17,450 · EducationFARWISE INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $16,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…+17 more — $16,626 · Education+17 moreINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $27,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN …PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $25,300 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA…Brothers for Life — $10,250 · Arts & CultureBrothers for…SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $6,300 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY S…PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA…THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION — $3,250 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $4,300 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $53,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAM…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN J…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $10,000 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $7,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,000 · InternationalHIAS INC — $1,200 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST FORUM — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · International+7 more — $1,350 · InternationalBRYN MAWR REHABILITATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthParkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area — $4,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $750 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $600 · Health+7 more — $1,575 · HealthTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF — $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $1,961 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $50 · Philanthropy
Other$358,685Education$171,076Arts & Culture$81,400Civil Rights$68,000International$24,050Health$17,925Philanthropy$12,511

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $76,862 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC — $56,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $53,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $25,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc — $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFARWISE INC — $17,450 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life — $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRYN MAWR REHABILITATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $6,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $5,413 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Foundation of the National Capital Area — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION — $4,413 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION — $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc — $2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKVILLE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $1,961 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,888 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHYDE PARK - KENWOOD LEGENDS BASEBALL — $1,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHIAS INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY OPERA COMPANY — $1,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Space Idaho Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBERTY THEATRE COMPANY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIANS FOR MODERN COURTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ISLAMIC CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH STUDIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER MERION TOWNSHIP POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Spur Community Founda…Jewish Federation of …Boswell Family Founda…Circle of Service Fou…T Rowe Price Program …Idaho Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Greater Washington Co…The Chicago Community…The Lehman FoundationL & H FoundationThe Nalen Foundation
Spur Community Foundation IncID21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Boswell Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Lehman Foundation · L & H Foundation · The Nalen 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 The Judith and Marshall Meyer Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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