Kansas · Private foundation
Merrill Charitable 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.
- $482k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Merrill Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 25 | $482k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $320k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $300k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $260k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $195k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $120k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $80k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Tourism Hub Inc | $390,500 | 6 | 86% |
| Museum of Prairiefire Foundation | $216,834 | 9 | 5% |
| Country Club Christian Church | $173,084 | 9 | n/a |
| Church of the Resurrection | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Kansas City Symphony | $71,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Saint Lukes Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Christian University | $49,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Franklin Center Inc | $48,000 | 8 | 100% |
| Salvation Army | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas Alpha of Phi Delta Theta Educational Foundation | $40,000 | 3 | 51% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($426k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Merrill Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Merriman Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Womack Foundation · Linda T Watson Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Merrill Charitable Foundation
- How much does Merrill Charitable Foundation give?
- Merrill Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $482,002 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merrill Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Religion (25%), Education (8%).
- Who are Merrill Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wilson Tourism Hub Inc ($391k), Museum of Prairiefire Foundation ($217k), Country Club Christian Church ($173k).
- Does Merrill Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merrill Charitable 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 Merrill Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation.
- Where is Merrill Charitable Foundation based?
- Merrill Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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