California · Private foundation
Merkin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $9.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $229M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Merkin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 | 13 | $9.2M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $12M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $12M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $17M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $13M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $6.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | $21,610,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $17,250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $8,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Milken Institute | $7,500,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $2,175,000 | 6 | 1% |
| WGU Advancement | $2,000,000 | 2 | 89% |
| Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Convergent Research Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Maven Project | $600,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Museum Associates | $600,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Merkin Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Merkin Family Foundation
- How much does Merkin Family Foundation give?
- Merkin Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $9,180,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Merkin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (34%), Health (30%), Education (22%).
- Who are Merkin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: California Institute of Technology ($22M), The Broad Institute Inc ($17M), Johns Hopkins University ($8.0M).
- Does Merkin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merkin Family 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 Merkin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Merkin Family Foundation based?
- Merkin Family Foundation is based in CA.
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