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Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$653k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$78k67%
FY20244$75k100%
FY20231$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Environment$105kAnimals$36kRecreation & Sports$25kEducation$5kScience & Tech$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSunflower Star Laboratory: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFriends of the WNC Nature Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFlorida State Parks Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSea Otter Savvy: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLlamas Del Sol Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBrevard Schools Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Zoological Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21

How much does Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 give?
Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 reported 6 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (61%), Animals (21%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
Who are Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Sunflower Star Laboratory ($50k), Friends of the WNC Nature Center Inc ($25k), Florida State Parks Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 based?
Merry S Graham Charitable Foundation Trust of 12-9-21 is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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