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The Myron and Alayne Meilman Family Foundation at a glance

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The Myron and Alayne Meilman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$265k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$536kReligion$181kHealth$109kInternational$66kHuman Services$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kEducation$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$833
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$250,000
GREENBURGH HEBREW CENTER$9,000
MIND AND MOTION ALLIANCE$1,000
HOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC$1,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$834
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$833
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$833
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDREN$500
COVENANT HOUSE$250
LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER$250
STAND UP TO CANCER$250
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$250
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.

area typical 11%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERV: $11k → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SER: $11k → 20%OHEL CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SER: $11k → 20%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%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

MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$865k · 20 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

$865k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+74%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    2× · 2020–2023 · $41k · revenue +198%
  • OC
    Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +65%
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue -45%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRNDS OF SOROKA MED CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
  • WC
    WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
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
6
Bikur Cholim

Bikur cholim organizes and subsidizes medical treatment, speech and physical therapy, medication, durable medical equipment, blood products, homecare, transportation, housing for patients and family-members, meals, and diagnostics while…

Health
7
Sherit Isroel
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8
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
10
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends Tomchai Shabat Foundation
—
12
The Jerusalem Connection
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mind and Motion Alliance Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUSTFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCGREENBURGH HEBREW CENTER: $174,000 · OtherGREENBURGH HEBREW CENTERAMERICAN FRNDS OF SOROKA MED CENTER: $36,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRNDS OF SOROKA MED CE…RENEWAL: $20,000 · OtherRENEWALKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $18,000 · OtherKIDS OF COURAGE INCWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+12 more: $14,833 · Other+12 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $41,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · International+2 more: $1,600 · InternationalCHAI LIFELINE INC: $23,600 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $15,000 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,166 · Health+6 more: $5,401 · HealthOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $32,400 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT MORRY PROPERTIES INC: $750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · EducationMIND AND MOTION ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$536,000Other$272,833International$52,600Health$52,167Human Services$32,650Youth Development$15,750Education$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $500,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $32,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $23,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS OF COURAGE INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,166 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,167 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,084 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC: $250 over 1y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Myron and Alayne Meilman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Myron and Alayne Meilman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • American Society for Deaf Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Myron and Alayne Meilman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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