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Merrill Family Charitable 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.

$829k
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCivil Rights$441kEnvironment$370kInternational$367kFood & Nutrition$294kHealth$198kEducation$180kHuman Services$148kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $226k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
MIRA COALITION$65,000
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL$60,000
CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE$60,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
WBUR$30,000
COMPANY ONE INC$27,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FOS FEMINISTA$15,000
HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
TUPELO PRESS INC$15,000
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$15,000
RAZOM INC$15,000
RED BULL THEATER INC$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REGENERATE YOUR AUTHENTICATE NATURE INC: $5k → 11%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $15k → 31%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $12k → 11%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $10k → 31%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $8k → 11%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $6k → 11%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $5k → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVE INC: $1k → 11%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $3k → 11%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $3k → 11%ON THE RISE INC: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROG: $5k → 16%LEE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $2k → 11%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $3k → 8%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $10k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $10k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
MS
AL
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 90 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

90 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
77

Total granted

$3.1M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+19%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +80%
  • COMPANY ONE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +195%
  • BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • AB
    AMALGAMATED BANK AC OF FOODSHED CAPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • CC
    CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue 0%
  • GT
    GREATER THINGS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Free Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Social ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Affordable Housing Construc…Women & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library OperationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/158
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,407

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

153 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 153 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/153
Grantees still filing
101/153
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION — $320,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATIONCOMPANY ONE INC — $137,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPANY ONE INCBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $130,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANYTUPELO PRESS INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTUPELO PRESS INCFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC — $37,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more — $301,700 · Arts & Culture+32 moreIndividual grant recipient — $126,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE JAR — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · Other+102 more — $1,090,500 · Other+102 moreInfact DBA Corporate Accountability — $120,000 · EnvironmentInfact DBA C…Sustainable Harvest International — $65,000 · EnvironmentSustainable …Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $54,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Uta…RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST F…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $34,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FO…The Monadnock Conservancy — $25,000 · EnvironmentThe Monadnoc…SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE …EARTHJUSTICE — $20,000 · Environment+4 more — $34,500 · Environment+4 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $107,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $81,000 · InternationalINTERNATI…ENGENDERHEALTH INC — $39,000 · InternationalENGENDERH…RAZOM INC — $35,000 · InternationalRAZOM INCInternational Rescue Committee INC — $22,000 · InternationalInternati…+8 more — $35,000 · International+8 moreMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $245,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $28,000 · Civil Rights+6 more — $24,000 · Civil RightsUnited Help Ukraine Inc — $65,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS — $36,500 · Human ServicesON THE RISE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT RIGHT — $24,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $17,500 · Human Services+8 more — $22,000 · Human ServicesCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC — $115,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC — $11,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,041,200Other$1,446,500Environment$417,500International$319,000Civil Rights$297,000Human Services$266,000Food & Nutrition$131,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION — $320,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $245,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMPANY ONE INC — $137,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $130,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability — $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC — $115,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $107,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $81,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Harvest International — $65,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc — $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTUPELO PRESS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC — $55,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $54,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC — $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC — $37,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS — $36,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetRAZOM INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST — $34,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetON THE RISE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Public Affairs — $29,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDURHAM CRISIS RESPONSE CENTER — $28,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC — $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $26,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetARTS ALIVE INC — $25,200 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT RIGHT — $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNon-Event Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPANY ONE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
  • Who funds CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
  • Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
  • Who funds TUPELO PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS ↗
  • Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Public Affairs ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM CRISIS RESPONSE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncNew Hampshire Charita…Eastern Bank Foundati…Plummer Fdn-CashAlchemy FoundationThe Kingsbury FundThe Memton Fund IncThe Ford FoundationCummings Foundation G…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Eppes - Jefferson…Barr Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA43.9× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Plummer Fdn-Cash · Alchemy Foundation · The Kingsbury Fund · The Memton Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Eppes - Jefferson Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Lgbtq Senior Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Project Against Violent Encounters — 100% of income from government
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Project Right — 71% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Transcultural Exchange — 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Affordable Homeownership Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
  • Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Tupelo Press Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 196 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home