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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Merakey Foundation

To conduct fundraising events and solicit donations to support the operations of its affiliates.

$355k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$336k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$22,588
Largest grant, FY2025
$144,738
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Merakey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$336k0%
FY20245$287k0%
FY20238$319k0%
FY20229$391k11%
FY202111$328k27%
FY20207$334k14%
FY201910$489k10%
FY20187$470k43%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.7MFood & Nutrition$535kHuman Services$23k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Merakey Pennsylvania$1,332,20690%
Fresh Start Now Inc$535,2379n/a
Merakey USA$459,34770%
Merakey Philadelphia$303,45480%
Merakey Parkside Recovery$139,12050%
Merakey Midwest$132,15662%
Merakey Allos$104,92960%
Fresh Start Foundation$71,11541%
Merakey Woodhaven$54,19420%
Merakey Delaware County$48,97930%
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All grantees of Merakey Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Merakey Pennsylvania$1,332,20690%
Fresh Start Now Inc$535,2379n/a
Merakey USA$459,34770%
Merakey Philadelphia$303,45480%
Merakey Parkside Recovery$139,12050%
Merakey Midwest$132,15662%
Merakey Allos$104,92960%
Fresh Start Foundation$71,11541%
Merakey Woodhaven$54,19420%
Merakey Delaware County$48,97930%
Merakey Childrens Services$39,29940%
Merakey Allegheny Valley School$34,07130%
Merakey Montgomery County$17,22120%
Merakey Bucks County$7,13910%
Merakey Idd Philadelphia$6,29210%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merakey Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMerakey Pennsylvania: $1,332,206 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMerakey USA: $459,347 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMerakey Philadelphia: $303,454 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMerakey Parkside Recovery: $139,120 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMerakey Midwest: $132,156 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMerakey Allos: $104,929 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFresh Start Foundation: $71,115 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMerakey Woodhaven: $54,194 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMerakey Delaware County: $48,979 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMerakey Childrens Services: $39,299 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMerakey Allegheny Valley School: $34,071 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMerakey Montgomery County: $17,221 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMerakey Bucks County: $7,139 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerakey Idd Philadelphia: $6,292 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 14.

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How do I get to Merakey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Merakey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Merakey Foundation

How much does Merakey Foundation give?
Merakey Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $335,654, out of $355,093 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Merakey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (83%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Merakey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Merakey Pennsylvania ($1.3M), Fresh Start Now Inc ($535k), Merakey USA ($459k).
Does Merakey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Merakey Foundation based?
Merakey Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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