· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $318k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| MIRA COALITION | $65,000 |
| CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| WBUR | $30,000 |
| COMPANY ONE INC | $27,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| TUPELO PRESS INC | $15,000 |
| HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION | $15,000 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $15,000 |
| RAZOM INC | $15,000 |
| RED BULL THEATER INC | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $15,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +80%
COMPANY ONE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +195%
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- ABAMALGAMATED BANK AC OF FOODSHED CAPITALone grant, 2021 · $40k
- CCCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue -48%
- GTGREATER THINGSone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
How this is measured
153 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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