North Carolina · Private foundation
Merancas Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 140
- Grants FY2025
- 149
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 107 to 161
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $174M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Merancas Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950k 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 | 138 | $15M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 149 | $16M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 149 | $16M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 161 | $19M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 122 | $14M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 112 | $8.8M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 107 | $6.9M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $6.1M | 3% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crisis Assistance Ministry | $3,430,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $3,425,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Roof Above Inc | $3,085,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc | $2,505,000 | 5 | 21% |
| Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc | $1,875,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Charlotte Family Housing | $1,760,870 | 9 | 8% |
| The Relatives Inc | $1,700,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | $1,550,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Freedom School Partners Inc | $1,500,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Council for Childrens Rights Inc | $1,425,000 | 8 | 14% |
Show all 166 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($33M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Merancas Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 163 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ally Charitable Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Philip L Van Every Foundation
How this is measured
About Merancas Foundation Inc
- How much does Merancas Foundation Inc give?
- Merancas Foundation Inc reported 140 grants totaling $16,238,472 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 107 and 161 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merancas Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (22%), Housing & Shelter (19%).
- Who are Merancas Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crisis Assistance Ministry ($3.4M), Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc ($3.4M), Roof Above Inc ($3.1M).
- Does Merancas Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merancas Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Merancas Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, The Leon Levine Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Merancas Foundation Inc based?
- Merancas Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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