The Richard Meier Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 13-3978415. Reported 54 grants totalling $2,832,100 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Richard Meier Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $900,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homeschool Now - Kauai | Princeville, HI | $1,212,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | Hicksville, NY | $490,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Good Institute | New York, NY | $375,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Makana North Shore Urgent Care | Princeville, HI | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mount Sinai Medical Center | Miami Beach, FL | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Getty Center - the J Paul Getty Trust | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Blue School | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dia Art Foundation | New York, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City and Country School | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hanalei Initiative | Hanalei, HI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cg Foundation | Kauai, HI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Arts & Science | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Park Conservancy (women's Committee) | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Renewal | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy of Long Island | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The New York STEM Cell Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Watermill Center | Water Mill, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children of Ukraine Foundation | New York, NY | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Global Fund for Children | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Museums in Israel | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anyone Corporation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Hudson River Park | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guild Hall of East Hampton | East Hampton, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery (hss) Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish National Fund | Hicksville, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Museum of Modern Art (moma) | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Town School | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parrish Art Museum | Water Mill, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Ladies' Village Improvement Society | East Hampton, NY | $1,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross Development Office | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | East Hampton, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Aspen Institute | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Wildlife Foundation (wwf) | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City Harvest | Brooklyn, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Group for the East End | Southold, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Village Preservation Society of East Hampton | East Hampton, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation Inc | Wainscott, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope for Depression Research Foundation | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
8 of 42 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 12%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Good Institute
TO BE USED FOR GENERAL PURPOSE OF ORGANIZATION INDICATED - Jewish Communal Fund
RICHARD MEIER PHILANTHROPIC FUND - The New York STEM Cell Foundation
SUSAN SOLOMON CENTER FOR PRECISION MEDICINE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $488,100 | $6,250 |
| 2022 | 6 | $491,000 | $35,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $486,000 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $1,367,000 | $32,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 51% of this one's giving went to organizations in Hawaii. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Hawaii.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Richard Meier Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 475 Tenth Avenue 6TH Floor, New York, NY, 10018. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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