· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
- $250k+5 grants · $8.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $5,600,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN DIEGO | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $400,000 |
| THE MAVEN PROJECT | $300,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA | $150,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BALLET | $50,000 |
| THE HAROLD & CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KYLES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| THE SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBThe Broad Institute Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $17M · revenue +58%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +40%- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE4× · 2019–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +191%
Funded once
- FJFALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -76%
- CRCONVERGENT RESEARCH INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -28%
- KSKECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF USCone grant, 2019 · $500k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WGU Advancement ↗
- Who funds FALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAVEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds BIOSCIENCE LOS ANGELES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Kyles Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds THE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WHY NOT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Merkin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merkin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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