New York · Private foundation
The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $989k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $362k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $619k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $392k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $495k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $298k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $404k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc | $1,600,000 | 3 | 22% |
| West Palm Golf Community Trust Inc | $255,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Benjamin Private School Inc | $218,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Second Stage Theatre Inc | $207,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Golf Fights Cancer Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Children's Brain Tumor Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Georgetown University | $184,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $137,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $132,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Brain Tumor Project Foundation | $105,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Eric Gleacher Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Raether Family Charitable Trust · Robertson Foundation · A Haigh Cundey Foundation · The Fanwood Foundation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Higgins Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation give?
- The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $1,445,040 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (26%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beat Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc ($1.6M), West Palm Golf Community Trust Inc ($255k), The Benjamin Private School Inc ($218k).
- Does The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable 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 Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Eric Gleacher Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Raether Family Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation based?
- The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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