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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
285
Grants FY2024
242
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
229 to 252
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
23
Total assets, FY2024
$86M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Mertz Gilmore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving217$6.9M15%
FY2023242$10M18%
FY2022252$12M16%
FY2021240$11M26%
FY2020229$10.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$11MCivil Rights$10MPublic Benefit$8.9MEnvironment$7.4MPhilanthropy$5.7MEducation$3.1MCommunity Improvement$1.8MEmployment$1.6MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 371 grantees
All grantees of Mertz Gilmore Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Foundation$1,305,50056%
Project South Inc$1,000,00029%
Opensecrets$875,00058%
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc$860,00054%
Virginia Organizing Inc$695,00052%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$685,00051%
Appalachian Voices$640,00056%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$612,50040%
Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy$570,00048%
Dance Service New York City Inc$555,00056%
Taproot Earth$550,00022%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$525,00051%
The Center for Cultural Power$525,00052%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$525,00050%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund$500,00051%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc$480,00051%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$475,00052%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc$445,00052%
Kentucky Coalition Inc$425,00055%
Climate Justice Alliance$400,00051%
New Georgia Project Inc$400,00051%
Make the Road New York$390,00050%
Virginia New Majority Education Fund$375,00052%
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc$375,00053%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$345,00050%
Salt Lake Civil Network Inc$340,000361%
Common Cause Education Fund$335,00051%
Southeast Climate & Energy Network$330,000518%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute$330,00052%
New York Live Arts Inc$329,00051%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd$327,00041%
ReThink Media$320,00047%
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis Inc$305,00041%
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc$300,00051%
US Climate Action Network$300,00045%
Gina Gibney Dance Inc$296,00051%
New Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc$295,00043%
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc$290,00051%
Goodpower Education Fund Inc$290,00051%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$285,00050%
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc$285,00056%
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops Sweatshops Inc$280,000529%
We the People MI$275,00054%
Community Voices Heard Inc$275,00052%
Queens College Foundation Inc$272,50050%
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation$272,00054%
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc$270,00051%
Foundation for Louisiana$266,00032%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc$265,00054%
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice$265,00054%
Florida Rising Together Inc$265,00051%
Danspace Project Inc$261,50056%
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc$258,00055%
Brandworkers International Inc$255,000514%
Good Old Lower East Side Inc$255,00053%
The Crenulated Company Ltd$255,00051%
Battered Women's Resource Center Inc$255,000532%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$250,00051%
Chinese Progressive Association$250,00050%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$250,00051%
Faith in New York$247,500513%
Minkwon Center for Community Action Inc$247,00052%
Chinese Staff & Workers Assoc Association Inc$245,000418%
Urban Justice Center$245,00050%
African Communities Together Inc$245,00043%
Movement for Justice in El Barrio Inc$245,000429%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$236,00021%
Artist Communities Alliance$230,000212%
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance$230,00057%
Allied Media Projects Inc$226,00040%
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light$225,000311%
Bridging The Gap In Virginia$225,000545%
Soul Surchers$220,0003n/a
Indigenous Environmental Network$220,00042%
Chhaya Community Development Corporation$220,00052%
Haleakala Inc$213,50052%
Ndn Collective Inc$210,00050%
Southern Environmental Law Center$210,00050%
Partnership for Southern Equity$210,00051%
Kings Majestic Corp$208,500512%
Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc$205,000510%
The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc$205,00040%
Movement Research Inc$202,00056%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$200,00041%
Progressive Multiplier Fund$200,00026%
Harlem Stage Inc$198,50051%
The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporated$198,00034%
Brooklyn Arts Council Inc$198,00033%
New Economy Project Inc$195,00053%
Blueprint North Carolina$195,00042%
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc$193,50051%
New American Leaders Inc$192,50044%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc$190,00044%
Riders Alliance Fund Inc$190,00044%
The Performance Zone Inc$188,00051%
Community Development Project Inc$185,00051%
Lawyers Alliance for New York$185,00051%
Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development$185,00051%
Higher Heights Leadership Fund$181,00043%
Center for Common Ground$180,00041%
Performance Space 122 Inc$177,00043%
Mothers Out Front Inc$175,00042%
Henry Street Settlement$173,50050%
Billie Holiday Theatre Inc$170,00052%
Works and Process Inc$168,50052%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$168,00042%
National Institute on Money in$165,00019%
One Voice$165,00041%
Baryshnikov Arts Center Inc$163,50051%
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$163,50051%
Southern Vision Alliance$160,00031%
Public Allies Inc$160,00030%
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc$156,00053%
Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc$155,00051%
Momentum Community Inc$150,00034%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$150,00050%
The Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island Inc$150,000210%
Voices for a Sustainable Future$150,00035%
Dancing in the Streets Inc$150,000511%
Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation$150,00021%
Queens Council on the Arts Inc$150,00028%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$150,00030%
Theater Et Al Inc Dba the Chocolate Factory Theater$148,50054%
Neighborhood Funders Group$147,50050%
Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance$145,000425%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative$145,00031%
Multiplier$140,00030%
One Arizona$140,00031%
New York State Tenants & Neighbors Information Ser$135,000411%
Monica Bill Barnes & Company Inc$135,000313%
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center$130,50042%
Center for Law and Human Values Inc$130,00032%
Mi Familia En Accion$130,00021%
Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre Inc$128,00052%
Activate 48 Education Fund$125,0001n/a
Arizona Advocacy Foundation$125,00026%
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc$125,00052%
The Broadway Dance Lab Inc$125,00055%
Community Food Advocates Inc$125,00038%
Center for Performance Research Inc$123,500511%
Streb Inc$120,50052%
City Parks Foundation Inc$120,00050%
The Participatory Budgeting Project Inc$120,00033%
Inequality Media$115,00027%
Roulette Intermedium Inc$113,50051%
Eastern Environmental Law Center Inc$105,00036%
Community Funds Inc$100,0002n/a
The Center for Urban Pedagogy Inc$100,00044%
Gallim Dance Company Inc$100,00043%
Local Progress Policy Institute$100,00012%
Protect Democracy Project$100,00020%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$100,00030%
Arizona Coalition for Change$100,00032%
MoveOn Education Fund$100,00022%
HIP-HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC DBA Hi-ARTS$100,00054%
Triskelion Arts-Kick-Standance Inc$99,000413%
Advocacy Institute Inc$95,00022%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$90,00050%
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc$90,00032%
Open Channels New York Inc dba Dixon Place$88,50054%
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc$85,00030%
Casa Inc$85,00030%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$85,00020%
Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc$80,00040%
Georgia Wand Education Fund$80,000210%
The New 42nd Street Inc$78,00030%
Cave Organization Inc$77,00057%
Financial Services Stakeholder Project Nfp$75,00022%
Joyce Theater Foundation Inc$75,00030%
We Own It Inc$75,0001n/a
Progress Now Education$75,00022%
Virginia Interfaith Center For Public Policy$75,00017%
Center for Transformative Action$75,00031%
Grassroots Power Project$75,00022%
State Voices$75,00010%
Maine People's Resource Center$75,00031%
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning$72,50042%
Philanthropy New York Inc$71,75050%
Topaz Arts Inc$71,000513%
Progressive Maryland Education Fund Inc$70,00035%
Queens Theatre in the Park Inc$70,00042%
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc$68,50051%
Dance Entropy Inc$65,50056%
Democracy North Carolina$65,00021%
Mothering Justice$65,00031%
People's Action Institute$65,00040%
Right to the City Alliance$65,00020%
The International Association of Blacks in Dance$65,00031%
Fourth Arts Block Inc$62,50049%
Arts Business Collaborative$60,00013%
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund$60,00021%
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center Inc$60,00014%
Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc$60,00021%
Americans for the Arts Inc$60,00031%
Kingsborough Community College Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation$55,50034%
Foundation for Independent Artists Inc$55,00021%
Queensboro Dance Festival Inc$55,000534%
State Democracy Project$55,00010%
Mijente Support Committee$55,00021%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$55,00020%
Jack Arts Inc$55,00053%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp$52,30051%
Sierra Club Foundation$50,00010%
Candid$50,00050%
League of Women Voters Education Fund$50,00011%
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund$50,00010%
Dance Works Inc$50,00015%
Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc$50,00030%
The Bronx Museum of the Arts$50,00021%
Power Shift Network$50,00015%
Fund for Constitutional Government$50,00011%
Repairers of the Breach$50,00011%
Take Back Our Republic Inc$50,00015%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$50,00010%
The Lit Fund$50,000231%
ACCE Institute$50,00011%
Kairos Fellowship Inc$50,00013%
The Chelsea Factory Inc$50,00011%
Fiorello H Laguardia Community College Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation$50,00051%
Project on Government Oversight Inc$50,00011%
Fractured Atlas Inc$48,00020%
Global Action Project Inc$45,000110%
New York Stage and Film Inc$45,00022%
Hook Arts Media Inc$45,00052%
Momsrising Education Fund$40,00010%
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders$40,00041%
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice$40,00010%
Common Market Philadelphia Inc$40,00011%
Grantmakers in the Arts$38,60041%
Layerhythm Productions Inc$36,000244%
Friends Home Association of New York$35,00024%
Center for American Progress$35,00010%
Yale University$35,0001n/a
Roanoke Economic Development Inc$35,000116%
Mediators Foundation Inc$35,00012%
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Inc$35,00019%
Indivisible Civics$35,00011%
Community Climate Collaborative$35,00013%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$35,00020%
Democracy Initiative Education Fund$35,00014%
Dorrance Dance Incorporated$35,00022%
Unique Projects Inc$32,00032%
Pepatian Inc$31,500317%
New Yorkers for Culture and Arts Inc$31,00022%
Commonwealth Corporation Foundation$30,00017%
Stephen Petronio Dance Company Inc$30,00012%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$30,00010%
New Alpha Community Development Corporation$30,00014%
The American Prospect Inc$30,00011%
Prescott College Inc$30,00020%
Pioneers Go East Collective Inc$30,000510%
Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition$30,00014%
Ms Foundation for Women Inc$27,50040%
Full Circle Productions FCP Inc$27,000251%
Eva Dean Dance Company Inc$26,000519%
Justice Funders$25,00011%
Missouri Jobs With Justice$25,00012%
United We Dream Network Inc$25,00010%
The Labor Institute Inc$25,00012%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$25,00010%
National Performance Network Inc$25,00011%
Cabd Inc$25,00012%
Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice$25,0001n/a
United for Respect Education Fund$25,00010%
Center for Coalfield Justice$25,00011%
The Foundation for City College$25,00010%
Jerome Robbins Foundation$25,00011%
Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation$24,50051%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$23,15010%
Next Generation Foundation for Street & Club Dance Culture$20,0001n/a
D Warren Inc$20,0001n/a
The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance Inc$20,00050%
Dances for a Variable Population Inc$20,00022%
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc$20,00030%
Me Too International Inc$20,00011%
The George Washington University$20,00010%
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Inc$20,00010%
The Corporation of Yaddo$20,00010%
Teachers College Columbia University$19,50010%
New York University$18,50050%
National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction Inc$17,50030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$17,50030%
The Ceres Trust$15,00010%
Women's Foundation of California$15,00020%
Lotus Fine Arts Productions Inc Dba Lotus Music & Dance Studios$15,00016%
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc$15,00050%
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation$15,00030%
Inquiring Systems Inc$15,00010%
Exploring the Metropolis Inc$15,000116%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$12,00040%
Mount Tremper Arts Inc$10,00015%
American Modern Opera Company$10,00013%
Voto Latino Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Participatory Politics Foundation$10,00012%
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$10,00040%
National Writers United Service Organization Inc$10,0001n/a
Nonprofit New York Inc$10,00011%
Bailey's Cafe Inc$10,00014%
Resource Generation Inc$10,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Harlem Inc$10,00030%
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc$10,00040%
Is183 Inc$10,00050%
The Funders Network Inc$10,00010%
Healthright International Inc$10,00010%
Day One of New York Inc$10,00030%
The Map Fund Inc$10,00015%
International Campaign for Responsbile Technology$10,0001n/a
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends$10,0001n/a
Maplewood Middle School Home & School Association$10,00037%
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy$10,00010%
East Brunswick Public Library Foundation$9,000210%
The City School Inc$9,00020%
Sphinx Organization Inc$8,00030%
Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc$8,00042%
The Laundromat Project Inc$7,50020%
Brooklyn Balletinc$7,50050%
Hundred Grand Dance Foundation Inc$7,50052%
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice$7,50020%
New Dance Alliance Inc$7,50051%
Drive Change Inc$7,50020%
Wam Theatre Inc$7,00051%
New York Shakespeare Festival$7,00020%
Cooperative Development Institute Inc$7,00020%
Trailblazer Camps Inc$6,00020%
Summit International School of Ministry$6,0001n/a
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$6,00010%
American Dance Asylum Inc$6,00021%
Western States Center$6,00020%
Greenagers Inc$5,00050%
Blue Mountain Center$5,00010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$5,00010%
Friends of the Earth$5,00010%
Ks Jamm Dance Troupe Inc$5,00051%
National Dance Institute$5,00050%
Red Hook Initiative$5,00020%
Flying Cloud Institute Inc$5,00050%
Resources Legacy Fund$5,00010%
Alliance for Justice$5,00010%
Dancewave Inc$5,00050%
Rod Rodgers Dance Company Inc$4,5003n/a
En Foco Inc$4,00011%
West Side Center for Community Life$4,00030%
Feed Our Veterans$4,00020%
Advocates for Children of New York$4,00030%
Roots Rising Inc$4,00040%
The Cleveland Modern Dance Association$3,50011%
Dynamite Youth Center Foundation Inc$3,00010%
Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts Dhamma Dena$3,0002n/a
Local Motion Inc$3,00030%
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc$2,50010%
Community Access Inc$2,50010%
Meade Memorial Episcopal Church$2,5001n/a
ALIVE Inc$2,50010%
New Jersey Policy Perspective$2,50010%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$2,25010%
Muslim Justice League$2,00010%
Movement Ground Farm$2,00012%
Comprehensive Healthcare$2,00010%
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc$2,00010%
J Street Education Fund Inc$2,00020%
The Jazz Gallery$2,00010%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$1,50010%
Rocky Mountain Institute$1,00010%
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Inc$1,00010%
Maplewood Memorial Park Conservancy$1,0001n/a
Association of Performing Arts Professionals$1,00010%
Alaria Chamber Ensemble Inc$1,00011%
Trust Women Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Massachusetts PPD Fund Inc$1,00011%
AMA Animal Rescue Incorporated$1,00010%
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mertz Gilmore Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Foundation: $1,305,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetProject South Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetOpensecrets: $875,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetPublic Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc: $860,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $695,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $685,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAppalachian Voices: $640,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $612,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSmartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy: $570,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetDance Service New York City Inc: $555,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetTaproot Earth: $550,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBvm Capacity Building Institute Inc: $525,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Center for Cultural Power: $525,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $525,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetColor of Changeorg Education Fund: $500,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPublic Citizen Foundation Inc: $480,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $475,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budget9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc: $445,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetKentucky Coalition Inc: $425,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetClimate Justice Alliance: $400,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNew Georgia Project Inc: $400,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMake the Road New York: $390,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVirginia New Majority Education Fund: $375,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetChesapeake Climate Action Network Inc: $375,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetThe Campaign Legal Center Inc: $345,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSalt Lake Civil Network Inc: $340,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetCommon Cause Education Fund: $335,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSoutheast Climate & Energy Network: $330,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $330,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNew York Live Arts Inc: $329,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDemos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd: $327,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetReThink Media: $320,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetInstitute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis Inc: $305,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: $300,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUS Climate Action Network: $300,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetGina Gibney Dance Inc: $296,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNew Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc: $295,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Inc: $290,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGoodpower Education Fund Inc: $290,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $285,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlign the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc: $285,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNational Mobilization Against Sweatshops Sweatshops Inc: $280,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetWe the People MI: $275,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc: $275,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetQueens College Foundation Inc: $272,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBallot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation: $272,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetFifth Avenue Committee Inc: $270,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFoundation for Louisiana: $266,000 over 3y, 1.6% 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 200.

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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.

The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY118.7× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · New York Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to Mertz Gilmore Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mertz Gilmore Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mertz Gilmore Foundation

How much does Mertz Gilmore Foundation give?
Mertz Gilmore Foundation reported 285 grants totaling $7,509,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 229 and 252 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Mertz Gilmore Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Civil Rights (19%), Public Benefit (17%).
Who are Mertz Gilmore Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New York Foundation ($1.3M), Project South Inc ($1.0M), Opensecrets ($875k).
Does Mertz Gilmore Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mertz Gilmore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mertz Gilmore Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Scherman Foundation Inc, The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc.
Where is Mertz Gilmore Foundation based?
Mertz Gilmore Foundation is based in NY.

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 421 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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