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Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$37MPhilanthropy$19MEducation$18MInternational$5.6MScience & Tech$3.7MArts & Culture$3.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.0MHuman Services$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $605k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+30 grants · $26M
$150,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$338M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Partnership for Giving matching gifts$10,113,892
The Childrens Inn at NIH$2,800,000
University of New MexicoExempt$1,899,566
United Nations Foundation Inc$1,000,000
American Cancer Society$790,851
Medical College of Virginia Foundation$657,573
Johns Hopkins University$627,869
American National Red Cross$600,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center OSBI$400,000
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$399,960
Case Western Reserve University$399,870
Boston Medical Center Corporation$399,864
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology$388,145
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center$384,953
Saint Barnabas Health Care System Foundation$350,210
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($129M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($25M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Good Samaritan Mission: $25k → 10%Valley Youth House Committee Inc: $150k → 11%Table Ministries Inc: $25k → 13%Americas Grow-a-Row: $55k → 4%Crossroads4Hope: $25k → 5%Women Aware Inc: $25k → 8%Wesley Shelter Inc: $50k → 20%America's Grow-a-Row Inc: $50k → 4%Cornerstone Family Programs: $25k → 4%Cancer Support Community Central New Jersey: $25k → 5%Women Aware Inc: $25k → 8%The Arc San Francisco: $25k → 10%Wesley Shelter Inc: $48k → 20%Valley Program for Aging Services Inc: $50k → 11%The Arc San Francisco: $25k → 10%Wesley Shelter Inc: $25k → 20%American National Red Cross: $600k → 14%National Urban League INC: $250k → 17%American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600k → 14%American National Red Cross: $600k → 14%Community Servings Inc: $150k → 16%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $50k → 7%American National Red Cross: $600k → 14%Community Servings Inc: $50k → 16%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $50k → 7%Community Servings Inc: $25k → 16%Community Servings Inc: $25k → 16%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $50k → 7%Broad Street Ministry: $25k → 22%Family Promise Montco PA formerly Inter-Faith Housing Alliance: $25k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
NM
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($25M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Norway$25M · 75 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116M · 94 repeat orgs$36M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
116

Total granted

$116M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

81%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CI
    CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +162%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +27%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Childrens Inn at NIH
    one grant, 2024 · $2.9M
  • HL
    HEALTH LEADS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -67%
  • UN
    United Nations Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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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4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
5
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
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
10
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
11
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Northern New Jersey and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Ymca Youth DevelopmentYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Equine Therapy ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…Senior Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr11%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr11%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/144
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,148

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 235 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/139
Grantees still filing
84/139
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various Organizations — $36,437,098 · OtherVarious OrganizationsVarious — $29,115,015 · OtherVariousPartnership for Giving matching gifts — $10,113,892 · OtherPartnership for Giving matching giftsUniversity of New Mexico — $5,034,640 · Other+114 more — $30,684,540 · Other+114 moreCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $6,250,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN A…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,990,648 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …HEALTH LEADS INC — $1,500,000 · HealthHEALTH LEADS INCBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $1,199,583 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL C…CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $1,166,341 · HealthCONQUER CANCER F…MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER — $1,166,148 · HealthMARY BIRD PERKIN…SAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $1,150,210 · HealthMOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC — $955,940 · HealthNATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK — $806,588 · Health+25 more — $5,486,082 · Health+25 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000,000 · EducationREED INSTITUTE — $1,500,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $1,432,717 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,227,869 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $1,195,632 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $1,189,894 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,154,807 · EducationCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $500,000 · Education+9 more — $1,045,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,400,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human Services+9 more — $577,698 · Human ServicesNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $800,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INC — $750,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $600,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $300,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · InternationalSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $150,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HUDDART & WUNDERLICH PARKS — $150,000 · EnvironmentRAHWAY RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $105,000 · EnvironmentWissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc — $75,000 · EnvironmentSan Bruno Mountain Watch — $50,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC — $50,000 · Environment
Other$111,385,185Health$21,671,540Education$11,245,919Human Services$3,777,698Arts & Culture$3,450,000International$1,200,000Environment$630,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $6,250,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL — $2,125,029 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,990,648 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTH LEADS INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetREED INSTITUTE — $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $1,432,717 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,227,869 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $1,199,583 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,195,632 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $1,189,894 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $1,166,341 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER — $1,166,148 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $1,154,807 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $1,150,210 over 3y, 33% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC — $955,940 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK — $806,588 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $800,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC — $750,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC — $649,669 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $600,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $500,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS INC — $491,760 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROWTH PHILANTHROPY NETWORK INC — $451,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC — $444,455 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNorthwestern University — $399,954 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $374,731 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare — $350,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST ALABAMA AIDS OUTREACH INC FIVE HORIZONS HEALTH SERVICES — $300,901 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHealth Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION — $299,819 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC — $285,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $250,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY AIDS OUTREACH INC — $238,444 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $237,488 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTRINITAS FOUNDATION — $200,128 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $165,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY — $163,211 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $150,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA NORTHERN NEW JERSEY — $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Hyde and Watson F…Pseg Foundation IncTd Charitable Foundat…Investors Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Philadelphia Foun…Community Foundation …Ej Grassmann TrustThe Provident Bank Fo…Fm Kirby Foundation I…Chubb Charitable Foun…Columbia Bank Foundat…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ30.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Nanticoke Senior Center Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Ywca Northern New Jersey — 42% of income from government
  • Zufall Health Center Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Trenton Health Team Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Center Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service Agency of Central Nj — 1% of income from government
  • CROSSROADS4HOPE — 1% of income from government
  • Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Upmc Western Maryland Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Capital Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 235 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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