Arizona · Private foundation
Meritage Cares 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 76
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Meritage Cares Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k 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 | 67 | $1.5M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $1.2M | 60% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $1.5M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $814k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $1000k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $786k | 82% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $194k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $1,500,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Building Talent Foundation | $705,000 | 5 | 7% |
| No Child Hungry Inc | $686,675 | 4 | 9% |
| Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| California Fire Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Inroads Inc | $230,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc | $174,400 | 6 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $141,996 | 1 | 0% |
| The North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 227 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Meritage Cares Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 192 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: Arizona Community Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Scsymmes Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Meritage Cares Foundation
- How much does Meritage Cares Foundation give?
- Meritage Cares Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $1,862,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 76 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Meritage Cares Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Food & Nutrition (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are Meritage Cares Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: National Arbor Day Foundation ($1.5M), Building Talent Foundation ($705k), No Child Hungry Inc ($687k).
- Does Meritage Cares Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Meritage Cares 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 Meritage Cares Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, The Gap Foundation, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is Meritage Cares Foundation based?
- Meritage Cares Foundation is based in AZ.
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