Washington · Private foundation
Merkaba Earth 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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 18
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $224k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Merkaba Earth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $22k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $18k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sound Action | $1,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Vashon Maury Community Food Bank | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Vashon Youth and Family Services | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vashon Allied Arts | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Voice of Vashon | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Haven | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Kiss the Ground | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Be Aware and Care | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Tilth Alliance | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sound Action | $1,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Vashon Maury Community Food Bank | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Vashon Youth and Family Services | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vashon Allied Arts | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Voice of Vashon | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Haven | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Kiss the Ground | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Be Aware and Care | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Tilth Alliance | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| West Sound Wildlife Shelter | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merkaba Earth 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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Royal Little Family Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Beardsley Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · United Way of King County · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Merkaba Earth Foundation
- How much does Merkaba Earth Foundation give?
- Merkaba Earth Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $26,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Merkaba Earth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (38%), Food & Nutrition (37%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Merkaba Earth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust ($10k), Sound Action ($2k), Vashon Maury Community Food Bank ($1k).
- Does Merkaba Earth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merkaba Earth 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 Merkaba Earth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Royal Little Family Foundation.
- Where is Merkaba Earth Foundation based?
- Merkaba Earth Foundation is based in WA.
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