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The Meckler Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$620k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PENNINGTON FUND$25,000
SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$11,450
BEYOND SPORT FOUNDATION$7,800
CONGREGATION EMANUEL$5,950
TOWN SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND$5,000
FRANK E DUCKWALL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$2,222
COLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$1,000
HOUSING PLUS$600
THE BRIDGE GOLF FOUNDATION$500
THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$500
THE BELLEVUE ASSOCIATION$500
THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL$300
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%EAST END HOSPICE: $300 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $300 → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $275 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 16 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
50

Total granted

$167k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+24%

Still filing today

69%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +53%
  • TT
    THE TOWN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • ML
    MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • QL
    QUOGUE LIBRARY CAMPAIGNS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SR
    SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
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
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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12
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Frank E Duckwall 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

37 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. 37 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PENNINGTON FUND: $45,000 · OtherTHE PENNINGTON FUNDCONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $24,098 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-ELQUOGUE LIBRARY CAMPAIGNS: $20,000 · OtherQUOGUE LIBRARY CAMPAIGNSQUOGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUEL: $10,835 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $10,000 · OtherPENNINGTON SCHOOL FUND: $10,000 · OtherPENNINGTON SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FUND: $10,000 · OtherBeyond Sports Foundation: $7,800 · OtherTOWN SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $7,750 · Other+39 more: $40,892 · Other+39 moreTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $43,400 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDIC…SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R …PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPH…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHA…+2 more: $625 · Arts & CultureCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthBELLEVUE ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $1,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $750 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $500 · Health+3 more: $350 · HealthTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $3,300 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $1,150 · EducationNORTH AMERICAN THROMBOSIS FORUM INC D/B/A VASCULEARN NETWORK: $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $500 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $500 · Education+2 more: $500 · EducationMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,444 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc: $875 · Human ServicesThe Bridge Golf Foundation: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$207,375Animals$43,400Arts & Culture$28,625Health$11,600Education$7,950Human Services$5,319Youth Development$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Chicago Community…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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