New Jersey · Private foundation
Meerwarth Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $719k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Meerwarth Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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 | 14 | $719k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $813k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $943k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $762k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $728k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $563k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $568k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $391k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc | $1,070,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center | $861,921 | 9 | 1% |
| Bucknell University | $785,716 | 9 | 0% |
| The Peck School | $401,120 | 4 | 1% |
| Homeless Solutions Inc | $178,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $132,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Great Swamp Watershed Association | $125,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Family Promise of Morris County Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation Inc | $76,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $72,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Meerwarth Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Conger Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Meerwarth Family Foundation
- How much does Meerwarth Family Foundation give?
- Meerwarth Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $719,357 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Meerwarth Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Health (17%).
- Who are Meerwarth Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ($862k), Bucknell University ($786k).
- Does Meerwarth Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meerwarth Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Meerwarth Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Fm Kirby Foundation Inc.
- Where is Meerwarth Family Foundation based?
- Meerwarth Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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