Colorado · Private foundation
Merriman Family Foundation
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.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $670k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Merriman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 13 | $32k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $23k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $37k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $43k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $34k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $45k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $36k | 57% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celebration Community Church | $65,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Colorado Families for Hands and Voices | $29,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Food Share Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stillwater Music | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Help for Haiti Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Coal Creek Meals on Wheels | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sister Carmen Community Center Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Ministry of Sw Denver | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merriman Family 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Trailhead Institute · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Merriman Family Foundation
- How much does Merriman Family Foundation give?
- Merriman Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $39,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merriman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (18%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are Merriman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Celebration Community Church ($66k), Colorado Families for Hands and Voices ($29k), Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen ($19k).
- Does Merriman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merriman Family Foundation 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 Merriman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Anschutz Family Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Merriman Family Foundation based?
- Merriman Family Foundation is based in CO.
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