· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMU School of Business | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| Heart of America Council BSA | $585,000 |
| St Lukes Hospital Foundation | $300,000 |
| The Garden Club of Palm Beach 1928 | $150,000 |
| Nelson Gallery Foundation | $50,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $50,000 |
| Alcuin School | $20,000 |
| United Way Greater Kansas City | $20,000 |
| Blair House Foundation | $20,000 |
| Welcome House Inc | $10,000 |
| Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach | $10,000 |
| Society of the Four Arts | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County | $10,000 |
| Crossroads Charter Schools | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +23%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY2× · 2020–2021 · $285k · revenue +15%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital3× · 2018–2024 · $102k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SLSAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $260k
- SVSMU - VISION 2025 FOOTBALL SUPPORT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $100k
- GWGEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTAL CENTERone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Its mission is to perform great performances for greater audiences. the kansas city symphony will achieve this mission by: - developing an uncompromising performance standard. - advancing the profile and value of the orchestra locally,…
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
82 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. 82 of the 160 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds ALCUIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Urban Youth Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Merriman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merriman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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