New Jersey · Private foundation
Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $29M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 91%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,113,892
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 95
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $338M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 91% of the organizations Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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 | 70 | $29M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $25M | 91% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $24M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $22M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 95 | $24M | 99% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $28M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Inn at Nih Inc | $6,250,000 | 4 | 23% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $2,400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Population Services International | $2,125,029 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington University | $2,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,990,648 | 4 | 1% |
| Health Leads Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Medical College of Va Foundation | $1,432,717 | 2 | 1% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,227,869 | 2 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $1,199,583 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $1,195,632 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 141 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($102M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 123 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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Provident Bank Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation
How this is measured
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About Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
- How much does Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation give?
- Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation reported 74 grants totaling $29,088,762 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Philanthropy (12%), Education (12%).
- Who are Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Inn at Nih Inc ($6.3M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($2.4M), Population Services International ($2.1M).
- Does Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 91% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Pseg Foundation Inc, Td Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation based?
- Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation is based in NJ.
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