Does Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

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Indiana · Private foundation

Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 28%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $13,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $1.1M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$90k	27%
FY2024	18	$55k	28%
FY2023	17	$60k	24%
FY2022	20	$63k	30%
FY2021	14	$75k	14%
FY2020	13	$65k	23%
FY2019	14	$66k	7%
FY2018	17	$66k	35%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$117kHealth$117kPhilanthropy$105kArts & Culture$102kHuman Services$51kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kCrime & Legal$13kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0

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
River Raisin Centre for the Arts Inc	$55,800	9	2%
Monroe County Historical Society	$39,550	7	14%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Monroe Michigan	$37,000	9	0%
Brighton Assembly of God	$34,000	9	n/a
Valley Assembly of God	$14,500	9	n/a
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc	$10,000	3	0%
Life Challenge of Southeastern Michigan	$8,000	6	0%
Full Life Assembly of God	$7,500	2	n/a
Hearts Cri Michigan Inc Rhonda R Trask	$5,500	5	9%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation	$4,500	1	n/a

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All grantees of Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
River Raisin Centre for the Arts Inc	$55,800	9	2%
Monroe County Historical Society	$39,550	7	14%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Monroe Michigan	$37,000	9	0%
Brighton Assembly of God	$34,000	9	n/a
Valley Assembly of God	$14,500	9	n/a
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc	$10,000	3	0%
Life Challenge of Southeastern Michigan	$8,000	6	0%
Full Life Assembly of God	$7,500	2	n/a
Hearts Cri Michigan Inc Rhonda R Trask	$5,500	5	9%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation	$4,500	1	n/a
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago	$4,000	1	0%
The Power Company Kids Club	$4,000	3	0%
National Tuberous Sclerosis Association	$1,500	2	0%
Friends Together	$1,500	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($378k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee

How much does Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee give?: Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee reported 26 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: River Raisin Centre for the Arts Inc ($56k), Monroe County Historical Society ($40k), The Young Men's Christian Association of Monroe Michigan ($37k).
Does Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee based?: Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee is based in IN.