Oregon · Private foundation
Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 66% of the organizations Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $596k 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 | 29 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $1.1M | 66% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.2M | 48% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $830k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $924k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Oregon University Foundation | $401,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Catholic Charities | $287,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Hope for the Homeless Foundation | $250,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Sutter Bay Hospitals | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bodyvox Inc | $196,500 | 4 | 7% |
| Eastside Timbers | $195,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Eastwood Ranch Foundation | $175,000 | 3 | 12% |
| University of Portland | $115,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rangers Scholarship Fund Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Paws for Purple Hearts | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Clark Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
How this is measured
About Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc
- How much does Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc give?
- Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $1,003,942 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (18%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
- Who are Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eastern Oregon University Foundation ($401k), Catholic Charities ($287k), Hope for the Homeless Foundation ($250k).
- Does Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund.
- Where is Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc based?
- Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc is based in OR.
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