How much does The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation give?

The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Health (19%), Education (15%).

Who are The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Maimonides Medical Center ($104k), Camphill Foundation ($48k), New York University ($48k).

Does The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation fund new organizations?

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

Does The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family 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 Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation

The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation

Q: Where is The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation based?

The Shelley and Donald Meltzer Family Foundation is based in CT.

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.

$10k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$232kHealth$126kEducation$103kHuman Services$62kPhilanthropy$23kYouth Development$22kInternational$19kCivil Rights$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$12k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAMILY LEGAL CARE	$10,000

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, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$561k · 25 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$561k

$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+72%

Still filing today

60%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

MM
MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER
4× · 2017–2021 · $104k · revenue +51%
NY
New York University
4× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +76%
GA
GORDON A RICH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +36%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2017 · $10k
HI
HAND IN HAND
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -2%
IH
I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +22%

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 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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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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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

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

Manhattanville University

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

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gar Foundation. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 64 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)

34/34

Grantees still filing

24/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$381,426Health$111,950Education$82,610Human Services$66,500International$11,000Civil Rights$9,500Crime & Legal$5,000

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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