The core mission of the Foundation is as follows:​

1. to make economic relief grants to needy individuals who are distressed or suffering as a result of poverty, low income, or lack of financial resources, including as a result of natural or civil disasters, or from temporary impoverishment, loss of employment, death, incapacity of a family wage earner, or damage to home and property, to provide health care to those who cannot afford health care or whose health insurance or financial resources are insufficient to cover medical needs;​

2. to make grants to other IRS 501(C)(3) organizations for educational, literary, cultural, humanitarian, scientific, health-care related and other charitable purposes; and​

3. to award scholarship benefits and student aid to high school, college, or graduate school students to enable the recipients to complete an undergraduate or graduate education in the field of their choice at the college or graduate school of their choice.

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Geographic Focus: New York City
Grant Sizes: Grant sizes vary but generally range around $2,000 per grant.

 

Please note that the Mayer Foundation makes grants to individuals and private foundations. While we gladly accept unsolicited applications, we regret that we cannot respond to or acknowledge every application.