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Mereville 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mereville Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$8k33%
FY20244$56k50%
FY20235$69k40%
FY20226$17k83%
FY20213$14k67%
FY20208$34k75%
FY201912$53k50%
FY201814$95k79%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$287kEmployment$59kEducation$22kEnvironment$12kCommunity Improvement$10kHealth$9kInternational$6kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
AZ
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mereville Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Academy of Art: $260,409 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Community Employment: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt George's School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Community Empowerment Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Foundation for Women's Wellness: $6,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetChristodora Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChashama Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Health Works: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthside Center for Child Development Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool Empowerment Network Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban School of San Francisco: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerformance Space 122 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSylvester Manor Educational Farm Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Italian Modern Art Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Athena Foundation: $270 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Russell Colgate Fund IncDE20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Russell Colgate Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Mereville Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mereville Foundation 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.

About Mereville Foundation

How much does Mereville Foundation give?
Mereville Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $7,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mereville Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Employment (14%), Education (5%).
Who are Mereville Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Academy of Art ($260k), New York Botanical Garden ($12k), Association of Community Employment ($11k).
Does Mereville Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mereville 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 Mereville Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Russell Colgate Fund Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Mereville Foundation based?
Mereville Foundation is based in NY.

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 45 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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