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The Meer Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% 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
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k64 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $271k
$420
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH$150,000
YESHIVA GEDOLAH ATERES MORDECHAI$120,900
KOLLEL INSTITUTE OF GREATER DETROIT$15,460
Individual grant recipient$15,100
ISRAEL CHESED CENTER$10,000
TZEDAK'S ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (TEP)$8,015
DETROIT CHESED PROJECT$6,500
MATAN B'SETER$5,100
BAIS CHABAD TORAH CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA D'MIR$2,500
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM$2,500
YESHIVA BETH MOSHE$2,350
UNITED INSTITUTION OF KARLIN STOLIN$2,000
FOXMAN TORAH INSTITUTE$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $72 → 6%BIKUR CHOLIM OF STATEN ISLAND: $500 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $750 → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $180 → 20%SPARKS OF LIFE: $200 → 11%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $100 → 20%CHAYIM ARUCHIM: $100 → 20%ATIME: $440 → 20%ATIME: $288 → 20%ATIME: $180 → 20%ATIME: $180 → 20%MISASKIM: $100 → 20%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

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
SC
DC
MS
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 129 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

129 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
98

Total granted

$1.3M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+16%

Still filing today

30%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPhilanthropyInternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • YY
    YAD YISROEL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • BJ
    BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL OF DENVER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +39%
  • OY
    Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch
    7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • YG
    YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF CARTERET INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • RW
    RABBI WALLERSTEIN LEGACY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • ON
    OHR NAAVAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +79%
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
5
University of Judaism Foundation
—
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
8
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
9
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
10
American Friends of Ohev Yisrael

Support for study of torah and chasiddus in ramat shilo, israel

Religion
11
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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12
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesorah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

76 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. 76 of the 245 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/76
Grantees still filing
53/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH: $486,100 · OtherYESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAHYESHIVA GEDOLAH ATERES MORDECHAI: $232,190 · OtherYESHIVA GEDOLAH ATERES MORDECHAIBAIS REFEOL FOUNDATION: $92,650 · OtherBAIS REFEOL FOUNDATIONYESHIVA GEDOLA OF GREATER DETROIT: $57,330 · OtherKOLLEL INSTITUTE OF GREATER DETROIT: $50,235 · Other+149 more: $411,726 · Other+149 moreBETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL OF DENVER: $8,200 · EducationOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $7,238 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OF KODSHIM: $2,050 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIVOT HORAAH: $1,040 · Education+4 more: $880 · EducationArachim America Inc: $2,840 · ReligionAISH HATORAH DETROIT: $2,500 · ReligionCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,490 · ReligionOHR NAAVA: $2,000 · ReligionKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,200 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA IMREI EMES I: $789 · ReligionFRIENDS OF HATZOLAH ASHDOD DAROM: $610 · ReligionFRIENDS OF OR CHAYA INC: $580 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $560 · Religion+7 more: $2,340 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $5,000 · PhilanthropySHUVU RETURN INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,950 · PhilanthropyHEBRON FUND INC: $800 · PhilanthropyShinun Vchazarah Inc: $700 · Philanthropy+4 more: $950 · PhilanthropyHATZALAH OF MICHIGAN: $12,750 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $3,150 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $1,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $1,100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $1,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $720 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $280 · International+1 more: $236 · InternationalTHE JEWISH DENTAL CLINIC: $1,860 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,145 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $450 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $250 · HealthISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Health
Other$1,330,231Education$19,408Religion$15,909Philanthropy$13,400Public Safety & Disaster$12,750International$7,986Health$3,955

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHATZALAH OF MICHIGAN: $12,750 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $10,100 over 2y, 24% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $10,068 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL OF DENVER: $8,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch: $7,238 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMATAN BSETER: $6,326 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYAD EZRA: $3,475 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $3,180 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM: $3,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHUVU RETURN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArachim America Inc: $2,840 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,490 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OF KODSHIM: $2,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHR NAAVA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH DENTAL CLINIC: $1,860 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,145 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAS MOSHE: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $1,088 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIVOT HORAAH: $1,040 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMAT BET SHEMESH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $930 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEBRON FUND INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA IMREI EMES I: $789 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShinun Vchazarah Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $648 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HATZOLAH ASHDOD DAROM: $610 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OR CHAYA INC: $580 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR: $560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $460 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALIYOS SHLOMO: $400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NACHLAS ZVI: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEC FUND INC: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $250 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds HATZALAH OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YAD YISROEL ↗
  • Who funds BETH JACOB HIGH SCHOOL OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch ↗
  • Who funds MATAN BSETER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Migdal OHR ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BIKUR CHOLIM EZRAT ACHIM ↗
  • Who funds SHUVU RETURN INC ↗

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…Ahavas Avraham Founda…The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…The Zev and Susan Mun…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…The Sorala FoundationZichron Chaim Charity…United Jewish Foundat…FjcBorsand Family Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 245 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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