Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Merwin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $399k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Merwin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $399k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $379k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $119k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $443k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $401k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $380k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $286k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $381k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erie Philharmonic Inc | $290,000 | 8 | 2% |
| United Way of Erie County | $102,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Erie Civic Theatre Association | $100,768 | 2 | 4% |
| City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Erie Zoological Society | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Safenet Inc | $79,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Art House | $61,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Erie Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 7% |
| St Martin Center | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Emmaus Ministries | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merwin Foundation 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: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Wabtec Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · McBrier Foundation · United Way of Erie County · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation
How this is measured
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About Merwin Foundation
- How much does Merwin Foundation give?
- Merwin Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $398,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Merwin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (15%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Merwin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Erie Philharmonic Inc ($290k), United Way of Erie County ($103k), Erie Civic Theatre Association ($101k).
- Does Merwin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Merwin 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 Merwin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, M J Surgala Tr, Wabtec Foundation.
- Where is Merwin Foundation based?
- Merwin Foundation is based in PA.
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