California · Private foundation
Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust
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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $90,400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $90,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 56
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $161k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $77k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $86k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $98k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $96k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $93k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 56 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $23,420 | 3 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Chai | $13,005 | 3 | n/a |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Full Circle Fund | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Phoenix Rotary Club Charities | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($506k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust 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.
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How this is measured
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About Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust
- How much does Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust give?
- Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $90,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (18%), Religion (7%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($23k), Northwestern University ($15k), Carnegie Mellon University ($14k).
- Does Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust 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 Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust based?
- Merle Hilliard Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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