· Private foundation
The Mermelstein 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YESHIVA HAR TORAH | $19,825 |
| JCC CHABAD W QUEENS | $18,000 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH | $15,660 |
| DAF A WEEK INC | $15,500 |
| TOY DRIVE OF GREAT NECK | $8,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $8,000 |
| JCC OF GREAT NECK | $5,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF BEACH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| GREAT NECK SYNAGOGUE | $4,020 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $3,780 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC | $2,360 |
| CONGREGATION TIFERETH MOSHE | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- YHYESHIVA HAR TORAH3× · 2022–2025 · $112k · revenue +7%
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $29k · revenue +18%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- NENE EMAN FOUNDATION USAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +33%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVOT BNEI AKIVAone grant, 2022 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious School
To further jewish education in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support and promote the study of torah (bible) among members of jewish faith worldwide.
To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.
The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.
To promote, assist, and sponsor the spreading of Jewish religious education in Israel. The organization will also organize inspirational gatherings in the USA to enhance the participants' Torah knowledge.
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hft Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YESHIVA HAR TORAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds NE EMAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds DAF A WEEK INC ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SULAMOT CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Beis Midrash of Queens ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds BNEI DAVID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Ojc Fund · Gail & Maurice Setton Foundation Inc · The Setton Foundation · The Jobarr Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation · The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation · Damar Foundation Inc · Hyman & Ann Arbesfeld Foundation Inc · Granit Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mermelstein Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc — 8% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.