Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Merriman 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Merriman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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 | 29 | $3.2M | 38% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $3.8M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $2.6M | 52% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $4.4M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $1.7M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $1.8M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $926k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $758k | 51% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Hill School | $5,050,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Saint Lukes Foundation | $791,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City | $285,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Royal Poinciana Chapel Inc | $251,950 | 6 | n/a |
| St Andrews Church Kansas City | $130,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $101,830 | 3 | 0% |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $101,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alcuin School | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures | $65,000 | 2 | 11% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merriman 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
How this is measured
About Merriman Foundation
- How much does Merriman Foundation give?
- Merriman Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $3,293,555 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merriman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (15%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are Merriman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pembroke Hill School ($5.0M), Saint Lukes Foundation ($791k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City ($285k).
- Does Merriman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merriman 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation.
- Where is Merriman Foundation based?
- Merriman Foundation is based in DC.
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