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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART$5,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,500
THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $2k → 22%URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY ENPOWERMENT: $10k → 14%SAG HARBOR CINEMA: $500 → 7%V&A AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS WELLNESS: $5k → 17%SCHOOL EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $1k → 20%NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $12k → 28%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $544 → 14%FRIENDS OF UFFIZI GALLERY: $1k → 11%ST GEORGES SCHOOL: $5k → 7%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%HETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTE: $500 → 16%CAF AMERICA: $500 → 9%THE FLETCHER SCHOOL: $1k → 8%ARLINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 10%SYLVESTOR MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM: $500 → 7%CHASHAMA: $2k → 17%NATIONAL SAWDUST: $500 → 20%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $515 → 14%ST GEORGES SCHOOL: $5k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S WELLNESS: $1k → 17%VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $1k → 17%VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $500 → 17%CHRISTODORA: $5k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $2k → 17%THE PUBLIC THEATRE: $10k → 17%HUNTER COLLEGE: $1k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1k → 17%ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS: $13k → 17%ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS: $10k → 17%THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 17%THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 17%CHRISTODORA HOUSE: $2k → 17%PERFORMANCE SPACE 122: $1k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $63k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $56k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $45k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $40k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $28k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $12k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $9k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE: $10k → 17%NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $3k → 17%NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 17%NORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 17%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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
AZ
DC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 11 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
31

Total granted

$354k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +14%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    2× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +42%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +249%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +144%
  • TP
    THE PUBLIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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12
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Athena Foundation. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART: $260,409 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF ARTASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS: $48,356 · OtherASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS+26 more: $39,829 · Other+26 moreST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,500 · EducationSCHOOL EMPOWERMENT NETWORK INC: $1,000 · EducationURBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $270 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHASHAMA INC: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $11,750 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT: $11,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $500 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S WELLNESS: $6,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $325 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Other$348,594Education$18,770Arts & Culture$13,500Environment$11,750Community Improvement$11,500Youth Development$10,000Health$6,425

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

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 budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,059 over 2y, 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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $500 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
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.

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 …Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mereville Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mereville Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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