Massachusetts · Private foundation
Merrimac Charitable Trust II
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.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $253k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Merrimac Charitable Trust II funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 32 | $44k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $46k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $38k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $32k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $37k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $40k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $30k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $36k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advocates Inc | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School Education Foundation Inc | $19,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $18,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cape Wellness Collaborative Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cape Cod Village Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Safe Coalition Incorported | $11,300 | 6 | 2% |
| Housing Assistance Corporation | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merrimac Charitable Trust II 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Duke University · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
How this is measured
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About Merrimac Charitable Trust II
- How much does Merrimac Charitable Trust II give?
- Merrimac Charitable Trust II reported 32 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merrimac Charitable Trust II fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (15%), Education (15%).
- Who are Merrimac Charitable Trust II's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Advocates Inc ($41k), Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School Education Foundation Inc ($19k), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($19k).
- Does Merrimac Charitable Trust II fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merrimac Charitable Trust II 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 Merrimac Charitable Trust II?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Merrimac Charitable Trust II based?
- Merrimac Charitable Trust II is based in MA.
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