California · Community foundation
Community Foundation of Merced County
Ensure a permanent source of charitable funds in merced county.
- $181k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $126k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,925
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Community Foundation of Merced County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $126k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $254k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $79k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $88k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $90k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $77k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $44k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Banos Unified School District | $162,630 | 9 | n/a |
| Merced Community College District | $158,595 | 4 | n/a |
| University of California Merced Foundation | $58,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Steady Studios | $54,320 | 1 | 28% |
| Valley Harvest Church of Merced | $48,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids Discovery Station | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Atwater Ag Boosters Organization | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Love Inc of Greater Merced | $27,200 | 2 | 9% |
| Ace Overcomers of Merced County | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Merced County Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 15% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Merced County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Merced County · Stewart Family Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · Dignity Health · Central California Food Bank · Teichert Foundation · The California Endowment · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Merced County with peer funders
About Community Foundation of Merced County
- How much does Community Foundation of Merced County give?
- Community Foundation of Merced County reported 7 itemized grants totaling $125,810, out of $180,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Merced County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Arts & Culture (9%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Merced County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Banos Unified School District ($163k), Merced Community College District ($159k), University of California Merced Foundation ($58k).
- Does Community Foundation of Merced County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Merced County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Merced County, Stewart Family Foundation, Ccf Community Initiatives Fund.
- Where is Community Foundation of Merced County based?
- Community Foundation of Merced County is based in CA.
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