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Merrill Schneider Foundation at a glance

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Merrill Schneider Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$469kReligion$93kPhilanthropy$78kHealth$64kPublic Benefit$48kHousing & Shelter$46kAnimals$43kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Old Friends Inc$10,000
The Jewish Agency for Israel$10,000
Friends of the Israel Defense Force$10,000
American Friends of Magen David Ado$10,000
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$10,000
Charitable Partnership Fund$10,000
Comm Foundation of Teton County$8,000
New Avenues for Youth$7,500
Hope for Ukraine Inc$6,000
United Help Ukraine Inc$6,000
Teleosis Foundation$6,000
Chabad of Northeast Portland$5,000
Holt International Children s Servi$5,000
American Friends Latet Humanitarian$5,000
Globus Relief$3,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Jemfriends Inc: $750 → 8%Jewish Family and Child Services: $2k → 12%Jewish Family and Child Services: $2k → 12%Jewish Family and Child Services: $2k → 12%Jewish Family and Child Services: $2k → 12%Jewish Family and Child Services: $2k → 12%Jewish Family and Child Services: $2k → 12%Robison Jewish Home: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
SC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$939k · 57 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
16

Total granted

$939k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NA
    NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +33%
  • OF
    Old Friends Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +82%
  • P
    PARSA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • FW
    Freedom Within Project
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • RJ
    ROBISON JEWISH HOME
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -96%
  • PA
    PINK AID INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +131%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
2
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
3
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
4
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
7
MedGlobal Inc

MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…

Health
8
Project Orbis International Inc

Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach

International
9
Refugee Protection International Inc

Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.

International
10
Adara Development (Usa)

Our mission is to bridge the world of business and the world of people in extreme poverty, and to support vulnerable communities with health, education and other essential services

International
11
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
12
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Furever Feline Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Comm Foundation of Teton County: $48,000 · OtherComm Foundation of Teton CountyNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $43,750 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INCThe Jewish Agency for Israel: $30,000 · OtherThe Jewish Agency for IsraelHolt International Children s Servi: $28,750 · OtherHolt International Children s ServiRotary Foundation of Rotary Interna: $27,450 · OtherRotary Foundation of Rotary InternaGREAT MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTER: $25,620 · OtherGREAT MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTERChabad of Northeast Portland: $20,000 · OtherChabad of Northeast PortlandJACKSON HOLE JEWISH COMMUNITY: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ZEN INC: $13,350 · OtherTELEOSIS FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $14,750 · Other+24 more: $82,290 · Other+24 morePARSA: $35,000 · InternationalPARSAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $27,500 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALGLOBUS RELIEF: $27,500 · InternationalGLOBUS RELIEFHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $23,500 · InternationalHOPE FOR UKRAINE INCPATH: $20,000 · InternationalPATHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC: $15,000 · InternationalASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC: $14,750 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $14,750 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $13,500 · International+8 more: $48,250 · International+8 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $27,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEA…The Against Malaria Foundation: $27,500 · HealthThe Against Mal…MEDIC MOBILE INC: $20,000 · HealthMEDIC MOBILE IN…HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $14,750 · HealthHOPE FOR HAITI'…THE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · HealthTHE LITTLE BABY…The Fistula Foundation: $10,000 · HealthThe Fistula Fou…D-TREE INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,750 · HealthD-TREE INTERNAT…PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $6,500 · HealthCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND: $44,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Greater Portland: $7,000 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $23,500 · Human ServicesSewa International Inc: $14,750 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $9,500 · Human ServicesROBISON JEWISH HOME: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesOld Friends Inc: $40,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,510 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALL NATIONS GATHERING CENTER: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$361,960International$299,750Health$128,500Philanthropy$53,500Human Services$51,000Animals$42,010Arts & Culture$32,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND: $44,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $43,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPARSA: $35,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBUS RELIEF: $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPATH: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIC MOBILE INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSewa International Inc: $14,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $14,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC: $14,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $14,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $14,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTELEOSIS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetD-TREE INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINMED PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN INC: $8,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $8,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Portland: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEET INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $4,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRESTAVEK FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGER-TETON AVALANCHE CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROBISON JEWISH HOME: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRASAD PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINK AID INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL NATIONS GATHERING CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOGA SOURCE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE EARTHFIRE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY ADVOCATES FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARSA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBUS RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds MEDIC MOBILE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC ↗
  • Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TELEOSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds D-TREE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INMED PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗

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.

Oregon Jewish Communi…Jewish Community Fede…Community Foundation …The Oregon Community …Jewish Federation of …Give Lively Foundatio…Tides FoundationJewish Communal FundBoston Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…
Oregon Jewish Community FoundationOR19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Merrill Schneider Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrill Schneider Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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