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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
285
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 285 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k94 grants · $282k
  • $10k–50k134 grants · $3.6M
  • $50k–250k57 grants · $3.6M
$25,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPENSECRETS$200,000
PROTEUS FUND$135,000
COLOR OF CHANGE EDUCATION FUND$100,000
APPALACHIAN VOICES$100,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS$98,000
CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY$75,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$75,000
BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE$75,000
SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION$75,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC$75,000
DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION$75,000
NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST AKA COMMUNITY FUNDS INC$75,000
PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK$75,000
CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK$75,000
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY SCHOOL: $5k → 16%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA: $40k → 22%ALIANZA NACIONAL DE CAMPESINAS INC: $20k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $45k → 9%WE OWN IT: $75k → 10%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $45k → 9%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 9%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $45k → 9%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $45k → 9%ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND: $125k → 11%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $45k → 9%PUBLIC ALLIES: $40k → 23%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $45k → 9%PUBLIC ALLIES: $40k → 23%PUBLIC ALLIES: $40k → 23%PUBLIC ALLIES: $40k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $40k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 13%THE TIDES CENTER: $40k → 20%THE TIDES CENTER: $40k → 20%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 20%THE TIDES CENTER: $30k → 20%THE TIDES CENTER: $30k → 20%THE TIDES CENTER: $30k → 20%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $55k → 20%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 20%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 20%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 20%BATTERED WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 20%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $90k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $50k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $50k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $50k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $5k → 17%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $8k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $35k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $35k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $30k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $30k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $4k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Mertz Gilmore Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mertz Gilmore Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46M · 272 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

272 repeat relationships: 185 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

272
102

Total granted

$46M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+18%

Still filing today

93%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • O
    OPENSECRETS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +103%
  • PP
    PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $860k · revenue +9%
  • VO
    VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $695k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NI
    National Institute on Money in
    one grant, 2020 · $165k · revenue -47%
  • CA
    CLIMSTE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • A4
    ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue ×12
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.

1
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
4
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
5
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
6
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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7
The Alliance for Media Arts Culture Inc

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Arts & Culture
8
The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc

The Theater of the Emerging American Moment, Inc. (The TEAM), is a Brooklyn-based theatre ensemble whose mission is to collaboratively create new works about the experience of living in America today, and to generate dialogue about our…

Arts & Culture
9
Public Art Fund Inc

As the leader in its field, public art fund brings dynamic contemporary art to a broad audience in new york city and beyond by mounting ambitious free exhibitions of international scope and impact that offer the public powerful experiences…

—
10
Center for Constitutional Rights

Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…

Civil Rights
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Lawyers for the Creative Arts

Provision of pro bono legal and consulting services to qualifying individuals/companies in the creative arts.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jerome Robbins Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

373 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. 373 of the 421 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
96
Early backer (in before they grew)
361/373
Grantees still filing
226/373
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK FOUNDATION: $1,305,500 · OtherNEW YORK FOUNDATIONPROJECT SOUTH INC: $1,000,000 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $825,000 · Other+71 more: $14,439,750 · Other+71 moreDANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC: $555,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE SERVICE N…NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $329,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $296,000 · Arts & CultureDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $261,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $236,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $226,000 · Arts & Culture+34 more: $4,523,000 · Arts & Culture+34 moreOPENSECRETS: $875,000 · Public BenefitOPENSECRETSPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $860,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC POLICY …CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $685,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POP…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $612,500 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthro…PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $480,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN…KENTUCKY COALITION INC: $425,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALI…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $335,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $327,000 · Public BenefitCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $290,000 · Public BenefitBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION: $272,000 · Public Benefit+8 more: $1,180,000 · Public Benefit+8 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $725,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FU…APPALACHIAN VOICES: $640,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VO…Taproot Earth: $550,000 · EnvironmentTaproot EarthWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $475,000 · EnvironmentWest Harlem En…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $400,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTIC…CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $375,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLI…Southeast Climate & Energy Network: $330,000 · EnvironmentSoutheast Clim…INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC: $305,000 · EnvironmentUS CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $300,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $290,000 · EnvironmentWest Atlanta Watershed Alliance: $230,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: $225,000 · Environment+9 more: $1,283,000 · Environment+9 moreBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $525,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACIT…COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CH…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA…Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $330,000 · Civil RightsAction Cent…NEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $295,000 · Civil RightsNEW IMMIGRA…NATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST SWEATSHOPS SWEATSHOPS INC: $280,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL MO…FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $265,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RIS…Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $258,000 · Civil RightsCommittee A…Brandworkers International Inc: $255,000 · Civil RightsBrandworker…MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO INC: $245,000 · Civil RightsRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $190,000 · Civil RightsHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $181,000 · Civil Rights+9 more: $980,000 · Civil Rights+9 morePROTEUS FUND INC: $1,059,500 · EducationPROTEUS FU…Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy: $570,000 · EducationSmartmeme …WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $525,000 · EducationWILLIAM J …VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $375,000 · EducationVIRGINIA N…ReThink Media: $320,000 · EducationReThink Me…We the People MI: $275,000 · EducationWe the Peo…INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $220,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $195,000 · EducationNEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC: $192,500 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $190,000 · Education+5 more: $605,000 · Education+5 moreVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $695,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $265,000 · Community ImprovementGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC: $255,000 · Community ImprovementARTIST COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE: $230,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $210,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $195,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $185,000 · Community ImprovementUPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementNew York State Tenants & Neighbors Information Ser: $135,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Other$17,570,250Arts & Culture$6,726,500Public Benefit$6,341,500Environment$6,128,000Civil Rights$4,704,000Education$4,527,000Community Improvement$2,395,000

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

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 budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $1,059,500 over 5y, 0.7% 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $725,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $339,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $337,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $335,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $332,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budget
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 NEW YORK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds OPENSECRETS ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy ↗
  • Who funds DANCE SERVICE NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds West Harlem Environmental Action Inc ↗
  • Who funds 9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE CIVIL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Climate & Energy Network ↗
  • Who funds Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
  • Who funds ReThink Media ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS 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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…The Scherman Foundati…The Harkness Foundati…Rockefeller Brothers …Amalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationBooth Ferris Foundati…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Fan Fox and Lesli…New York FoundationFreedom Together Foun…Surdna Foundation Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mertz Gilmore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
55report 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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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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