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The Barry and Wendy Meyer Foundation: 45 grants to organizations, $1.1 million (tax year ended December 2024)
The Barry and Wendy Meyer Foundation, a private foundation in Encino, CA, paid 45 grants to organizations totaling $1,061,560 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 10, 2025. The largest was $255,000 to Venice Family Clinic in Venice, CA for provides free primary health care, specialty care and dental care.
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- EIN
- 954754104
- Based in
- Encino, CA
- Assets
- $14,058,749
- Grants paid
- $1,061,560
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 10, 2025, IRS object ID 202513149349103411. It reported $1,061,560 in grants paid; 45 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Family Clinic | Venice, CA | Provides free primary health care, specialty care and dental care | Health care | $255,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Human Rights Watch | New York, NY | To protect human rights around the world | International, foreign affairs and national security | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Foster Youth Institute (nfyi) | Los Angeles, CA | To improve outcomes for foster youth | $78,612 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Aclu (american Civil Liberties Union) Foundation of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend rights | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit | Education | $55,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brave New Films | Los Angeles, CA | To champion social justice issues by using a model of media, education, and grassroots volunteers involvement | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Alzheimer's Association | Chicago, IL | To help provide urgently needed care and support to families facing alzheimer's and advance vital research aimed at finding methods of treatment, prevention and ultimately, a cure | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Heart Association | Los Angeles, CA | To foster appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce heart disease and stroke | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Holocaust Museum La | Los Angeles, CA | To promote awareness | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | To develope and support programs to help prevent angelenos from falling into homelessness through outreach, case management and expanded legal services | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| PBS Socal | Costa Mesa, CA | To provide programming to enrich lives of diverse people through art and music | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | To collect, preserve and display the heritage of the usa | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | The world's largest private humanitarian relief organization to ease pain and suffering | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Happy Trails for Kids | Santa Monica, CA | To provide support year around to children in foster care | Human services | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| KCRW Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | Public radio station broadcasting national public radio and news | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Southern California Public Radio (laist) | Pasadena, CA | To improve the quality of civic and cultural life of our metropolis | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Summit Foundation | Breckenridge, CO | To enrich and improve the lives of residents and guests in the areas of health and human service, education, environment art, and culture and sports | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $13,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth | Washington, DC | To help end extreme sentences for children, particularly juvenile life without parole | Crime and legal-related | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Casa (court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children of Los Angeles | Monterey Park, CA | To mobilize community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Library Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | To provide critical support to the los angeles public library resulting in free programs, resources, and services available to the millions of adults, children, and youth of los angeles | Education | $12,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Alliance for Children's Rights | Los Angeles, CA | To improve the lives and futures of children | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Anti-Recidivism Coalition (arc) | Los Angeles, CA | To reduce incarceration, improve the outcomes of formerly incarcerated, and to build healthier communities | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Children's Law Center of California (CLC) | Monterey Park, CA | To aid foster youth | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Global Glimpse | Oakland, CA | To provide american youth with experience first-hand exposure to different countries, cultures and people, in order to understand violent conflict, poverty, corruption, hunger, inequality, global warm | Education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Los Angeles, CA | To provide sexual and reproductive health care education | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Unicef USA | New York, NY | To reach more children suffering at the hands of conflicts and natural disasters | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Westside Neighborhood School (WNS) | Los Angeles, CA | To provide education and support in school | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| I Have A Dream Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | To provide tuition support to children in low income communities | $9,448 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Everychild Foundation | Pacific Palisades, CA | To ease suffering of children in the greater los angeles area | Human services | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | To reach people facing hunger with food and groceries | Food, agriculture and nutrition | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Archer School for Girls | Los Angeles, CA | To empower young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential in an environment that is both ambitious and joyful | Education | $6,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Children's Rights | New York, NY | National watchdog organization on behalf of abused abandoned foster kids | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Jewish Federation Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | To address the greatest challenges of jewish life locally and globally by helping the most vulnerable to insure the jewish future for generations to come | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | Los Angeles, CA | To mobilize resources to fight hunger in the community | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Museum of American History | Washington, DC | To empower people to create a just and compassionate future by exploring, preserving, and sharing the complexity of our past. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | To make critical investments to keep holocaust memory alive as a relevant, transformative force in the 21st century | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Best Friends Animal Society | Kanab, UT | To place unwanted dogs and cats into good homes | Animal-related | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | Enriches the community and improves the lives of countless men and women | Human services | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Children's Action Network (can) | Los Angeles, CA | To increase awareness about children's issues | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Colorado Open Lands | Lakewood, CO | To preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado | Environment | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Friends of the Saban Community Clinic | Los Angeles, CA | To provide comprehensive, quality health care to those in need | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | Los Angeles, CA | To present and promote the performing arts in its varied forms at the highest level of excellence to a diverse and large audience | Arts, culture and humanities | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Folk Art Museum | Long Island City, NY | Providing displays of art to the community | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cirque Lodge Foundation | Sundance, UT | To provide patient aid to those people who cannot afford the opportunity to receive premium addiction treatment | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Inquilinos Unidos (iu) | Los Angeles, CA | To identify, train, and organize tenant leaders in los angeles | $1,000 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Health care | $255,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $150,000 |
| Education | $83,000 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $27,000 |
| Human services | $23,500 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $13,500 |
| Crime and legal-related | $12,000 |
| Food, agriculture and nutrition | $6,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| California | $778,560 |
| New York | $186,000 |
| District of Columbia | $47,000 |
| Illinois | $31,000 |
| Colorado | $15,500 |
| Utah | $3,500 |
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Updated November 10, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.