Delaware · Private foundation
Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $836k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2025
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 99
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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 | 98 | $783k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 84 | $838k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 87 | $668k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 99 | $548k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $521k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $378k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $526k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 84 | $534k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University | $866,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Davidson College | $532,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Help of Beaufort | $216,500 | 7 | 13% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $204,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $182,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Mississipp Folk Art Foundation | $140,000 | 4 | 71% |
| North Shore Country Day School | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Rivers Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $58,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bascom Corporation | $57,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 161 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 148 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The H Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · Laurel Charitable Trust · The Bargain Box · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc
How this is measured
Compare Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc
- How much does Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc give?
- Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc reported 108 grants totaling $836,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 99 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (29%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Emory University ($867k), Davidson College ($532k), Help of Beaufort ($217k).
- Does Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc based?
- Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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