California · Nonprofit
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,512,887 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($1,537,700). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Merona Leadership Foundation does
Mission
MERONA Leadership Foundations mission is to support pro-Israel activists of all backgrounds, on campuses and beyond, by providing programming, professional guidance and funding for pro-Israel initiatives while collaborating with pro-Israel non-profits and engaging pro-Israel community leaders.One of the initiatives that Merona is supporting is the Impact Forum, a network of philanthropists who learn, support, and empower nonprofits that do exceptional work to fight antisemitism, and strengthen the U.S. Israel Alliance.In addition, through cutting edge technology, Merona aspires to bring scenes from Israel to life to anyone around the world who wants to explore the land of the Bible without having to fly across the globe through the Virtually Israel Experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
MERONA Leadership Foundations mission is to support pro-Israel activists of all backgrounds, on campuses and beyond, by providing programming, professional guidance and funding for pro-Israel initiatives while collaborating with pro-Israel non-profits and engaging pro-Israel community leaders.One of the initiatives that Merona is supporting is the Impact Forum, a network of philanthropists who learn, support, and empower nonprofits that do exceptional work to fight antisemitism, and strengthen the U.S. Israel Alliance.In addition, through cutting edge technology, Merona aspires to bring scenes from Israel to life to anyone around the world who wants to explore the land of the Bible without having to fly across the globe through the Virtually Israel Experience.
$1,582,412 spentof which $553,619 as grants$3,684,550 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,582,412.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $4.0M (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $30k → $1.4M.
20 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $375k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Milstein Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 53% · 2019 44% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.9M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside California, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Impact Forum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,512,887 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($1,537,700). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $7,512,887 in grants to MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 61 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing