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.

Meerwarth Family Foundation

Meerwarth Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Meerwarth Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$719k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.2MHealth$898kCommunity Improvement$297kHousing & Shelter$268kEnvironment$190kFood & Nutrition$140kHuman Services$112kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $16k
$10k–50k5 grants · $85k
$50k–250k6 grants · $619k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MGA FOUNDATION	$150,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER	$142,857
KENT PLACE SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND	$125,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY	$100,000
HOMELESS SOLUTIONS	$51,000
THE BALTUSROL FOUNDATION	$50,000
THE PECK SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND	$25,000
EVANS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION	$25,000
THE GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION	$15,000
VERMONT FOOD BANK	$10,000
WOMEN'S METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION	$10,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN	$7,500
NEW VERNON FIRE DEPARTMENT	$5,000
HARDING LAND TRUST	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.7M · 47 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+35%

Still filing today

60%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FF
Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
9× · 2017–2025 · $862k · revenue +28%
Bucknell University
9× · 2017–2025 · $786k · revenue +45%
TP
THE PECK SCHOOL
4× · 2017–2020 · $401k · revenue +17%

Funded once

BA
BLAIR ACADEMY
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +0%
AM
AFSP MASSACHUSETTS SUICIDE PREVENTION
one grant, 2024 · $35k
HK
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +36%

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.

04Its field

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.

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Jfk Medical Associates Pa

Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.

Health

Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Manchester Riverwalk Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 76 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

35/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,562,970Recreation & Sports$1,101,500Education$1,033,166Health$876,421Environment$182,165Food & Nutrition$135,000Human Services$51,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ32.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Meerwarth Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meerwarth Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home