Connecticut · Private foundation
Meriden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 156
- Grants FY2024
- 142
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $43,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 133 to 167
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Meriden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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 | 139 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 142 | $1.1M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 133 | $1.1M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 136 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 142 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 148 | $1.1M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 147 | $1.1M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 167 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midstate Medical Center | $691,890 | 8 | 0% |
| Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $218,840 | 8 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $217,600 | 8 | n/a |
| Our Lady Queen of Angles Parish Corporation | $204,750 | 7 | n/a |
| Trinity College | $203,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $192,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc | $188,375 | 8 | 3% |
| Beat the Street Community Center Inc | $177,000 | 8 | 14% |
| New Opportunities Inc | $152,730 | 5 | 0% |
| Meriden Soup Kitchen Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 17% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 310 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Meriden Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The James H Napier Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The John G Martin Foundation · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Mary V Ricci Trust · Friends Fiduciary Corporation
How this is measured
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About Meriden Foundation
- How much does Meriden Foundation give?
- Meriden Foundation reported 156 grants totaling $1,234,560 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 133 and 167 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Meriden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (17%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Meriden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Midstate Medical Center ($692k), Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc ($219k), First Baptist Church ($218k).
- Does Meriden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meriden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Meriden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ion Bank Foundation Inc, The James H Napier Foundation, Liberty Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Meriden Foundation based?
- Meriden Foundation is based in CT.
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