Illinois · Private foundation
Mereo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,513
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $166k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Mereo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 17 | $37k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $28k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $13k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hindu American Foundation Inc | $11,003 | 4 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Loaves & Fishes Community Services | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sewa International Inc | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hindu Heritage Endowment | $2,503 | 3 | 0% |
| Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Barn Sanctuary | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hindu American Foundation Inc | $11,003 | 4 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Loaves & Fishes Community Services | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa) | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sewa International Inc | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hindu Heritage Endowment | $2,503 | 3 | 0% |
| Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Barn Sanctuary | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Himalayan Academy | $501 | 1 | 0% |
| Behind Every Temple | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Vitiligo Support International Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mereo Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mereo Foundation
- How much does Mereo Foundation give?
- Mereo Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $36,517 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Mereo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Religion (21%), Food & Nutrition (19%).
- Who are Mereo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Hindu American Foundation Inc ($11k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($6k), Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc D/B/A Hesed House ($5k).
- Does Mereo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mereo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mereo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mereo Foundation based?
- Mereo Foundation is based in IL.
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