How much does The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc give?

The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $480,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (20%), Health (11%).

Who are The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Guild Hall of East Hampton Inc ($580k), Veterinarians International Inc ($508k).

Does The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Meringoff Family 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 Meringoff Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust.

Where is The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc based?

The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc

The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc

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.

$480k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$280k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.6MEducation$2.4MHealth$1.3MAnimals$858kCrime & Legal$740kYouth Development$713kHuman Services$473kPhilanthropy$367kOther$0

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k6 grants · $135k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$250k+1 grant · $280k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$112k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC	$280,000
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC	$60,000
PENCIL INC	$30,000
TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC	$30,000
MOUNT SINAI HEART AT MOUNT SINAI WEST	$25,000
HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK INC	$25,000
READING TEAM INC	$15,000
PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC	$10,000
RALLY FOUNDATION INC	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $538k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 74 repeat orgs$960k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+37%

Still filing today

78%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

AA
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
GH
GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $580k · revenue +201%
MF
MOVE(NYC) FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $431k · revenue +155% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

MH
MANY HOPES INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +186%
FF
FDNY FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +8%
RF
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY
one grant, 2020 · $50k

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.

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

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

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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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education

The Teak Fellowship Inc

To help academically talented new york city students from low-income families earn admission into the most selective secondary schools and colleges.

Human Services

City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture

School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Urban Dove Inc; the most unlike its peers is Endangered Species Fund. 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

87 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. 87 of the 124 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

86/87

Grantees still filing

62/87

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,021,125Arts & Culture$2,267,400Health$1,445,000Education$1,391,015Youth Development$704,800Philanthropy$658,000Human Services$538,205

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

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.

Pinkerton FoundationNY47.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Blackstone Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 Meringoff Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meringoff Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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