Idaho · Private foundation
Merrill Schneider Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Merrill Schneider Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 48 | $177k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $171k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $176k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $177k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $135k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charitable Partnership Fund | $44,000 | 5 | 1% |
| New Avenues for Youth Inc | $43,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Old Friends Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Parsa | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Helen Keller International | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Globus Relief | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($168k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merrill Schneider Foundation 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.
Open a dossier: Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Oregon Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Portland · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Merrill Schneider Foundation
- How much does Merrill Schneider Foundation give?
- Merrill Schneider Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $178,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Merrill Schneider Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (48%), Religion (10%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Merrill Schneider Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Charitable Partnership Fund ($44k), New Avenues for Youth Inc ($44k), Old Friends Inc ($40k).
- Does Merrill Schneider Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merrill Schneider Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Merrill Schneider Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.
- Where is Merrill Schneider Foundation based?
- Merrill Schneider Foundation is based in ID.
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