· Private foundation
Julia & Gilbert Merrill 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEW GROUP | $78,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $36,000 |
| WHBPAC | $30,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PBMC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PETA | $1,000 |
| BIDAWEE | $1,000 |
| MOORE COLLEGE OF ART | $1,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $600 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE | $500 |
| EAST END HOSPICE CAMP GOOD GRIEF | $500 |
| LITERARY NETWORK OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE | $250 |
| QUOGUE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
| FRIENDS OF WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NEW GROUP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $384k · revenue +1%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +33%
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +76%
- AFANNE FRANK CENTER USA INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -46%
- MCMANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
To discover, cultivate and develop emerging european writers and artists by staging their works in new york city theatre.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…
To present, in a rotating repertory, the finest latin american, spanish, and latino usa theatre and to serve as a catalyst for cultural exchange between spanish and english speaking americans.
Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RUBE GOLDBERG INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Network of South Berkshire Inc ↗
- Who funds QUOGUE FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ARTS ON THE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds PIPELINE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Julia & Gilbert Merrill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julia & Gilbert Merrill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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