About Us | Mayer Foundation About Us Application Process Contact More Mission The Mayer Foundation was incorporated in March 2002 as a New York nonprofit corporation. 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 of 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 medial needs 2. to make grants to other IRS 501C3 organizations for educational literary cultural humanitarian scientific healthcare related and other charitable purposes and 3.