· Private foundation
Miriam H Merin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Miriam H Merin Charitable Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Miriam H Merin Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $335k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHERE DO WE GO BERKELEY | $100,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $80,000 |
| JCC EAST BAY | $50,000 |
| CONSIDER THE HOMELESS | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +89%- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY3× · 2019–2021 · $180k · revenue +584%
- WDWhere Do We Go Berkeley2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +56% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -1%
- BLBLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%
- RIRESIST INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +242%
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.
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Public interest legal activities
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds Where Do We Go Berkeley ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Consider The Homeless ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Miriam H Merin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miriam H Merin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Crime Victim Law Institute: 5% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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