How much does Merrion Family Foundation give?

Merrion Family Foundation reported 134 grants totaling $604,590 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 104 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Merrion Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (22%), Health (15%).

Who are Merrion Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Juan College Foundation Inc ($744k), Tibbetts All Ability Park Foundation Inc ($500k), San Juan Medical Foundation Inc ($339k).

Does Merrion Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Merrion 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 Merrion Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Westmeath Foundation, Thomas a and Mary E Dugan Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.

Where is Merrion Family Foundation based?

Merrion Family Foundation is based in DE.

Merrion Family Foundation

Merrion Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Merrion Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$605k

Granted FY2024still arriving

134

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MReligion$1.1MHealth$778kRecreation & Sports$578kCommunity Improvement$365kYouth Development$287kHuman Services$186kPhilanthropy$175kOther$0

02FY2024 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k117 grants · $241k
$10k–50k14 grants · $214k
$50k–250k3 grants · $150k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC	$50,000
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH	$50,000
SAN JUAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$50,000
FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL	$25,000
SAN JUAN COUNTY LIFE SKILLS FOUNDATION	$25,000
FOUR CORNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION	$21,500
PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES	$20,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC	$20,000
NAVAJO UNITED METHODIST CENTER	$15,000
CONVICTED BY CHRIST	$15,000
SAN JUAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC	$12,500
GRACE PLACE FOR WOMEN INC	$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES GALLUP INC	$10,000
REBOUND NEW MEXICO	$10,000
NEW MEXICO FAMILY ACTION FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 130 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

130 repeat relationships: 89 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130

Total granted

$5.0M

$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+19%

Still filing today

71%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

SJ
SAN JUAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $744k · revenue +48%
TA
Tibbetts All Ability Park Foundation Inc
2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +45% · 78% of their budget
SJ
SAN JUAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $339k · revenue +2% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

EC
EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NAVAJOLAND
one grant, 2018 · $25k
BN
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +54%
D
DREAMSPRING
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -50%

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.

San Juan Regional Medical Center

Better is our mission, improving lives through personalized health and care

Health

Casa Partners 4NMKIDS Inc

The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…

Civil Rights

Rio Rancho Chamber of Commerce

A regional Chamber committed to improving the quality of community life driven by business leadership mentorship advocacy and prosperity.

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Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico

The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.

Philanthropy

New Mexico Kids Matter Inc

New mexico kids matter inc., serves as a court appointed special advocate to advocate for the best interest of abused, neglected and high-risk children.

Crime & Legal

Four Corners Mission

Unclassified

El Pueblo Health Services Inc

Primary Rural Health Care

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Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy

New Mexico Childrens Foundation

Grants and expenses for programs serving the physical, mental, educational and social needs of children and their families.

Human Services

Casa Fortaleza

Casa fortaleza provides advocacy, case management services, therapy, and outreach to victims/survivors of sexual violence.

Health

New Mexico Ethics Watch

New mexico ethics watch is dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life.

Public Benefit

Law Access New Mexico

Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Plata Family Centers Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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

154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 222 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

146/154

Grantees still filing

110/154

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,645,369Education$831,330Youth Development$745,400Health$383,550Community Improvement$318,500Public Benefit$141,000Arts & Culture$129,850

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Westmeath FoundationDE104.8× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Westmeath Foundation · Thomas a and Mary E Dugan Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · San Juan United Way · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Connie Gotsch Arts Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Team Up · Ballantine Family Fund · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation

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 Merrion Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrion Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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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

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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