Missouri · Private foundation
Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $478k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $87,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 37 | $478k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $262k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $260k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $288k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $985k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $393k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $328k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $398k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand River Area Family YMCA Inc | $528,337 | 9 | 4% |
| Chillicothe R-Ii School District | $512,649 | 9 | n/a |
| Livingston County Veterans Association | $202,500 | 4 | 24% |
| House of Prayer | $152,667 | 9 | n/a |
| Chillicothe FFA Alumni Association | $146,100 | 6 | 40% |
| Hope Haven Industries Inc | $120,278 | 7 | 4% |
| Dawn Fire Fighters Association Inc | $88,150 | 5 | n/a |
| Chillicothe Area Christian Builders | $85,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Home of Sliced Bread Corporation | $62,530 | 7 | 60% |
| Hedrick Medical Center Foundation Inc | $57,800 | 3 | 33% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Roger a Browning Foundation Inc · Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation · Hal F Juckette Family Foundation · Carl C & Ardath Hudnall Foundation · Livingston County Community Foundation · Minnie B Hedrick Trust · Fm & Gladys McCall Foundation · James Allbritain Lawson Charitable Trust · Mfa Oil Foundation · Jerry Litton Family Memorial Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation
- How much does Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation give?
- Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $478,085 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (32%), Education (17%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Grand River Area Family YMCA Inc ($528k), Chillicothe R-Ii School District ($513k), Livingston County Veterans Association ($203k).
- Does Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mervyn W Jenkins 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 Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roger a Browning Foundation Inc, Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation, Hal F Juckette Family Foundation.
- Where is Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation based?
- Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation is based in MO.
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