New York · Private foundation
The Blum Merians 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.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $639k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Blum Merians 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; $4k 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 | 25 | $72k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $74k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $35k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $45k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $52k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $50k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $22,995 | 7 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $18,654 | 5 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $16,403 | 7 | 0% |
| Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund | $15,078 | 6 | 0% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Inc | $8,320 | 3 | 0% |
| Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center | $8,090 | 6 | 0% |
| Mental Health America Inc | $6,260 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $6,245 | 2 | 0% |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $6,155 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Blum Merians 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Blum Merians Foundation
- How much does The Blum Merians Foundation give?
- The Blum Merians Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $72,472 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Blum Merians Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), International (16%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are The Blum Merians Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($23k), International Rescue Committee INC ($23k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($19k).
- Does The Blum Merians Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Blum Merians 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 The Blum Merians Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Blum Merians Foundation based?
- The Blum Merians Foundation is based in NY.
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