Minnesota · Private foundation
Merjent 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.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 91%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $84k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 91% of the organizations Merjent Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 | 18 | $40k | 89% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $40k | 91% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $40k | 93% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $52k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $24k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $25k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $9k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Lift Garage | $10,500 | 2 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Alaska | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tubman | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Avivo | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Link | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merjent Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pentair Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Merjent Foundation
- How much does Merjent Foundation give?
- Merjent Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $40,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Merjent Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Education (21%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Merjent Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Lift Garage ($11k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($10k), Food Bank of Alaska ($8k).
- Does Merjent Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 91% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merjent 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 Merjent Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Merjent Foundation based?
- Merjent Foundation is based in MN.
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