· Private foundation
The Lisa and Brian Meer Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $250,000 |
| GESHER HUMAN SERVICES | $14,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF MICHIGAN | $10,100 |
| YAD ESRA | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $10,000 |
| OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE VILLAGE CLUB FOUNDATION | $3,800 |
| CRANBROOK COLLECTIONS & RESEARCH | $3,500 |
| KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,640 |
| CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $2,500 |
| JARC | $2,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $2,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,600 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YEYAD EZRA4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +12%
- GHGESHER HUMAN SERVICES2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +47%
- TVTHE VILLAGE CLUB FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- BRBAIS REFOEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $92k
- JMJAMES MADISON EDUCATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +49%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DVIone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Foundation for detroit's future (fdf) shall work to lessen the burdens of government, combat community deterioration, and improve the quality of life of the general public in and around the city of detroit through, among other things,…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
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…
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 97 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BAIS REFOEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lisa and Brian Meer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lisa and Brian Meer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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