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Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Table Ministries Inc: $25k → 13%Wesley Shelter Inc: $50k → 20%Americas Grow-a-Row: $55k → 4%Crossroads4Hope: $25k → 5%Women Aware Inc: $25k → 8%Good Samaritan Mission: $25k → 10%Valley Youth House Committee Inc: $150k → 11%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%The Arc San Francisco: $25k → 10%Wesley Shelter Inc: $48k → 20%Valley Program for Aging Services Inc: $50k → 11%Wesley Shelter Inc: $25k → 20%American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600k → 14%National Urban League INC: $250k → 17%American National Red Cross: $600k → 14%American National Red Cross: $600k → 14%Community Servings Inc: $150k → 16%Mitzvah Circle Foundation: $50k → 7%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%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
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

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
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

+18%
+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
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

  • 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
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Northern New Jersey; 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.
04the grantee network

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/139
Grantees still filing
83/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+113 more: $30,659,540 · Other+113 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+26 more: $5,511,082 · Health+26 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 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentSan Bruno Mountain Watch: $50,000 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC: $50,000 · Environment
Other$111,360,185Health$21,696,540Education$11,245,919Human Services$3,777,698Arts & Culture$3,450,000International$1,200,000Environment$630,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetREED INSTITUTE: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTH LEADS INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 12% 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 budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUPMC Center for High-Value Healthcare: $350,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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 budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $150,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

  • 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 REED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 235 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-PF 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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