Wisconsin · Private foundation
Merkel Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,078
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $451,381
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Merkel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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 | 45 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $1.5M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.1M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $820k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $935k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $787k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $609k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $565k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $1,144,881 | 9 | 0% |
| Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee | $986,851 | 9 | n/a |
| Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc | $870,785 | 4 | 0% |
| Sheboygan Youth Sailing Club Inc | $305,111 | 3 | 25% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin Inc | $286,124 | 9 | 1% |
| Holy Apostles Catholic Parish | $249,822 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Memorial High School of Waukesha Inc | $249,763 | 5 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nourish Farms Inc | $225,000 | 9 | 7% |
| World Craniofacial Foundation | $215,516 | 9 | 9% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Merkel Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trusted Fraternal Life
How this is measured
About Merkel Foundation Inc
- How much does Merkel Foundation Inc give?
- Merkel Foundation Inc reported 47 grants totaling $2,316,683 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merkel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (22%), Health (16%).
- Who are Merkel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marquette University ($1.1M), Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee ($987k), Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc ($871k).
- Does Merkel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merkel Foundation Inc 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 Merkel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Merkel Foundation Inc based?
- Merkel Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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