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The Meckler 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$620k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Meckler Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving19$68k47%
FY202316$52k75%
FY202225$64k80%
FY202120$62k70%
FY202020$59kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$69kPhilanthropy$50kAnimals$44kArts & Culture$41kReligion$37kHealth$35kHuman Services$11kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Animal Medical Center$43,40050%
Congregation Emanu-El$24,0983n/a
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$15,00010%
Quogue Historical Society$11,00034%
Congregation Emanuel$10,8352n/a
Philadelphia Museum of Art$10,00010%
Beyond Sports Foundation$7,8001n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Frank E Duckwall Foundation$5,00011%
The Town School Inc$5,00020%
Show all 42 grantees
All grantees of The Meckler Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Animal Medical Center$43,40050%
Congregation Emanu-El$24,0983n/a
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$15,00010%
Quogue Historical Society$11,00034%
Congregation Emanuel$10,8352n/a
Philadelphia Museum of Art$10,00010%
Beyond Sports Foundation$7,8001n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Frank E Duckwall Foundation$5,00011%
The Town School Inc$5,00020%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$4,44420%
The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School$3,30020%
Bellevue Association Inc$3,00022%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$3,00010%
The Bridge Golf Foundation$1,50020%
Riverdale Country School Inc$1,15030%
Housing Plus Solutions Inc$1,10020%
The Bridge Foundation Corporation$1,0001n/a
Columbiabarnard Hillel Inc$1,00010%
Temple Emanu-El$1,0001n/a
North American Thrombosis Forum Inc D/B/A Vasculearn Network$1,00010%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$1,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,00010%
East End Hospice Inc$87530%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$75010%
Moose and Janet Miller Campership Fund$5001n/a
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$50010%
Museum at Eldridge Street$50010%
Barnard College$50010%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$50010%
American Lung Association$50020%
The Chapin School Ltd$25010%
Rumsey Hall School Inc$25010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20010%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$20010%
Hampton Theatre Company Inc$12510%
Glioblastoma Foundation Inc$10010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation$10010%
Catholic Guardian Services$10010%
Swing Fore Hope$10010%
Visiting Nurse Service of New York$5010%
Sutton Place Parks Conservancy$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Meckler Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Animal Medical Center: $43,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuogue Historical Society: $11,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrank E Duckwall Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Town School Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $4,444 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue Association Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRiverdale Country School Inc: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbiabarnard Hillel Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth American Thrombosis Forum Inc D/B/A Vasculearn Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum at Eldridge Street: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRumsey Hall School Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHampton Theatre Company Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlioblastoma Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Guardian Services: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwing Fore Hope: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of New York: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutton Place Parks Conservancy: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 36.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Meckler Foundation Inc

How much does The Meckler Foundation Inc give?
The Meckler Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $68,372 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Meckler Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Philanthropy (16%), Animals (14%).
Who are The Meckler Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Animal Medical Center ($43k), Congregation Emanu-El ($24k), Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation ($15k).
Does The Meckler Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Meckler 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Meckler Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is The Meckler Foundation Inc based?
The Meckler 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 75 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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