New York · 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.
- $141k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 77%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,825
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 53
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $189k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 77% of the organizations The Mermelstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $141k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $211k | 77% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $127k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva Har Torah | $112,355 | 3 | 0% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $28,670 | 2 | 0% |
| Hebrew Academy of Long Beach | $27,660 | 2 | n/a |
| National Council of Young Israel | $25,293 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ne Eman Foundation USA | $19,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Daf a Week Inc | $17,300 | 2 | 2% |
| Emunah of America Inc | $15,410 | 3 | 0% |
| Yeshiva University | $14,580 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad of Great Neck Inc | $6,580 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mermelstein Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Mermelstein Foundation
- How much does The Mermelstein Foundation give?
- The Mermelstein Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $141,338 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 53 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Mermelstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (64%), International (9%), Health (7%).
- Who are The Mermelstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Yeshiva Har Torah ($112k), American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc ($29k), Hebrew Academy of Long Beach ($28k).
- Does The Mermelstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mermelstein 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 Mermelstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, The Ojc Fund.
- Where is The Mermelstein Foundation based?
- The Mermelstein Foundation is based in NY.
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