Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Mericle Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $84k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $37,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Mericle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $84k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $225k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $244k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $991k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $548k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $509k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $837k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $435k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geisinger Health | $1,349,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Cancer Wellness Center of Nepa | $252,059 | 6 | 65% |
| Junior Achievement of Nepa Inc | $200,800 | 2 | 37% |
| Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation | $197,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Catholic Youth Center | $100,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Josephs Center Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wrc Inc | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Misericordia University | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Marley's Mission Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geisinger Health | $1,349,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Cancer Wellness Center of Nepa | $252,059 | 6 | 65% |
| Junior Achievement of Nepa Inc | $200,800 | 2 | 37% |
| Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation | $197,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Catholic Youth Center | $100,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Josephs Center Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wrc Inc | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Misericordia University | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Marley's Mission Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Equality Pennsylvania | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Scranton | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Wilkes Barre Association for the Blind D/B/A Northeast Sight Services | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Lands at Hillside Farms | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Osterhout Free Library | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| United Way of Wyoming Valley | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dinners for Kids Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Waverly Community House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mericle Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Tambur Family Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Luzerne Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone Foundation
How this is measured
About Mericle Foundation
- How much does Mericle Foundation give?
- Mericle Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mericle Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Education (12%).
- Who are Mericle Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Geisinger Health ($1.3M), The Cancer Wellness Center of Nepa ($252k), Junior Achievement of Nepa Inc ($201k).
- Does Mericle Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mericle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mericle Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Tambur Family Foundation, Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation, Moses Taylor Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mericle Foundation based?
- Mericle Foundation is based in PA.
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