Michigan · Private foundation
The Meer Family Foundation
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.
- $376k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $420
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 98
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Meer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 68 | $376k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $263k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 83 | $138k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $313k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $141k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $35k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $33k | 47% |
82% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Religion$1.1MSocial Science$50kCivil Rights$28kPhilanthropy$24kInternational$23kEducation$19kHuman Services$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
SC
DC
MS
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $486,100 | 8 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Darchei Torah | $39,876 | 8 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of | $13,226 | 9 | n/a |
| Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield | $12,863 | 4 | n/a |
| Hatzalah of Michigan | $12,750 | 3 | 2% |
| Congregation Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills | $12,480 | 6 | n/a |
| Hebrew Benevolent Society | $10,100 | 2 | 24% |
| Yad Yisroel | $10,068 | 7 | 0% |
| Beth Jacob High School of Denver | $8,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch | $7,238 | 7 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $486,100 | 8 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Darchei Torah | $39,876 | 8 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of | $13,226 | 9 | n/a |
| Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield | $12,863 | 4 | n/a |
| Hatzalah of Michigan | $12,750 | 3 | 2% |
| Congregation Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills | $12,480 | 6 | n/a |
| Hebrew Benevolent Society | $10,100 | 2 | 24% |
| Yad Yisroel | $10,068 | 7 | 0% |
| Beth Jacob High School of Denver | $8,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch | $7,238 | 7 | 0% |
| Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America | $6,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Matan Bseter | $6,326 | 5 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of South Monsey | $5,825 | 7 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah of Carteret Inc | $5,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Yad Ezra | $3,475 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of Migdal OHR | $3,180 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Bikur Cholim Ezrat Achim | $3,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Shuvu Return Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America | $2,950 | 4 | 0% |
| Arachim America Inc | $2,840 | 6 | 0% |
| Aish Hatorah Detroit | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | $2,490 | 8 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yeshiva of Kodshim | $2,050 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohr Naava | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Jewish Dental Clinic | $1,860 | 6 | 1% |
| Moreshes Bais Yaakov Inc | $1,675 | 3 | n/a |
| American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $1,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnai Israel | $1,236 | 3 | n/a |
| Keren Hashviis Inc | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Colel Chabad | $1,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Ladies Bikur Cholim Dsatmor | $1,165 | 7 | n/a |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $1,145 | 7 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yeshivas Toras Moshe | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
| A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange | $1,088 | 4 | 0% |
| Yad Simcha | $1,070 | 5 | n/a |
| Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem | $1,060 | 5 | n/a |
| Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Det | $1,050 | 3 | n/a |
| American Friends of Netivot Horaah | $1,040 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ramat Bet Shemesh Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yad Eliezer | $930 | 2 | 0% |
| Zichron Menachem Inc | $900 | 4 | n/a |
| Lubavitch Foundation | $810 | 3 | n/a |
| Hebron Fund Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Imrei Emes I | $789 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $720 | 3 | 0% |
| Shinun Vchazarah Inc | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $650 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Hatzolah Ashdod Darom | $610 | 4 | 0% |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $580 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of or Chaya Inc | $580 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Kupat Ha'Ir | $560 | 2 | 0% |
| Esther Ben-David Memorial Fund | $530 | 2 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim of Staten Island Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Resource Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mesorah Heritage Foundation | $460 | 3 | 0% |
| American Diabetes Association | $450 | 4 | 0% |
| Zichron Yisroel Yosef Inc | $430 | 1 | n/a |
| Aliyos Shlomo | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Nachlas Zvi | $400 | 4 | 0% |
| Congreation Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah | $400 | 4 | n/a |
| Nechomas Yisroel | $380 | 3 | n/a |
| Mec Fund Inc | $360 | 2 | 0% |
| Yeka Girls | $330 | 2 | n/a |
| Mesivta Lubavitch of Monsey | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Heritage Foundation | $300 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $280 | 1 | 0% |
| Hebrew Theological College | $280 | 2 | n/a |
| Congreation Emunas Yisroel | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Mackinac Center | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $250 | 3 | 0% |
| Bayit Cham | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshivas Kesser Yonah | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Zionist Organization of America | $250 | 2 | 0% |
| Peylim Lev Lachim | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Israel Childrens Cancer Foundation Inc | $250 | 2 | 0% |
| Congregation Bais Elazar Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Ezer Mizion | $236 | 3 | 0% |
| Sparks of Life Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Chayim Aruchim Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Yeshiva Kesser Chaim Inc | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis Inc | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $180 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Zichron Refoel Inc | $150 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Meshi Inc | $120 | 1 | 0% |
| Missouri Torah Institute | $100 | 2 | 0% |
| Tomchei Tzedaka Corp | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Kinyan Hatorah Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Misaskim Corp | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshivath Torah Vodaath | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| American Kidney Fund Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Simchas Yom Tov Inc | $75 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Beer Hachaim Inc | $75 | 1 | 0% |
| Kedushas Pinchas Inc | $75 | 1 | 0% |
| Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind | $72 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Chaim Vachesed | $60 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Chosein Yehoshua | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Aaron of Teaneck | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Mesivta D Rabbi Yochanan | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Bais Aharon | $36 | 1 | n/a |
| Lekach Tov Inc | $36 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Tiferes Yaakov | $25 | 1 | n/a |
| Mosdos Shomrei Emunim Inc | $25 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 134 recipients with no EIN on record ($696k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Meer Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 68.
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.
Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable FoundationMI47.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · United Jewish Foundation · Fjc · Borsand Family 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.
About The Meer Family Foundation
- How much does The Meer Family Foundation give?
- The Meer Family Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $375,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 98 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Meer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (81%), Social Science (4%), Civil Rights (2%).
- Who are The Meer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yeshivath Beth Yehudah ($486k), Yeshivas Darchei Torah ($40k), Yeshivath Beth Moshe-The Milton Eisner Yeshiva High School Of ($13k).
- Does The Meer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meer Family Foundation 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 Meer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation, Ahavas Avraham Foundation, The Ojc Fund.
- Where is The Meer Family Foundation based?
- The Meer Family Foundation is based in MI.
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