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The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch 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.

$400k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman Services
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$400k0%
FY20237$375k14%
FY20226$345k17%
FY20215$300k0%
FY20204$271k0%
FY20196$265k17%
FY20186$240k17%
FY20175$240kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$960kScience & Tech$675kHealth$525kHuman Services$116kInternational$100kPhilanthropy$60k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYeshiva University: $800,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $675,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary: $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Guild for the Blind: $175,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc: $66,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMetropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc

How much does The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc give?
The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Science & Tech (28%), Health (22%).
Who are The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yeshiva University ($800k), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($675k), Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary ($350k).
Does The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc based?
The Margaret and Leo Meyer and Hans M Hirsch Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 9 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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