California · Public charity
Merritt Community Capital Corporation
To provide affordable housing for low income persons.
- $971k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $911k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Merritt Community Capital Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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 | 17 | $871k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $864k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $817k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $565k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $53k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $204k | 93% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $79k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $860,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State | $267,170 | 5 | 0% |
| National Association of State and Local Equity Funds | $252,857 | 3 | 13% |
| Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California | $203,389 | 4 | 2% |
| Housing California Inc | $177,563 | 3 | 1% |
| California Housing Consortium | $170,000 | 3 | 4% |
| California Coalition for Rural Housing Project | $160,000 | 4 | 3% |
| California Housing Partner Corporation | $140,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Diego Housing Federation | $120,000 | 3 | 4% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merritt Community Capital Corporation 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: Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Wells Fargo Foundation · California Community Foundation · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · The James Irvine Foundation · Public Health Institute · Crankstart Foundation · Eden Housing Inc · Desert Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · Sunlight Giving
How this is measured
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About Merritt Community Capital Corporation
- How much does Merritt Community Capital Corporation give?
- Merritt Community Capital Corporation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $910,647, out of $971,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Merritt Community Capital Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (37%), Education (34%), Community Improvement (28%).
- Who are Merritt Community Capital Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Local Initiatives Support Corporation ($860k), The University Corporation San Francisco State ($267k), National Association of State and Local Equity Funds ($253k).
- Does Merritt Community Capital Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Merritt Community Capital Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag, Wells Fargo Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Merritt Community Capital Corporation based?
- Merritt Community Capital Corporation is based in CA.
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