· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATERSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION - MEL MERIANS MEMORIAL FUND | $25,750 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $5,150 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,134 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,129 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $3,125 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $3,090 |
| ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY | $3,078 |
| BLACK VOTERS MATTERBVM CAPACITY BLDG INST | $3,000 |
| EVERYORG | $2,300 |
| RAICES | $2,097 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $2,089 |
| FAIR FOOD PROGRAM | $2,058 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSORT GIVEBUTTER | $1,180 |
| NORTH AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS FOOD SYSTEMS | $1,069 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +41% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 INC7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +79%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +67%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- ABACT BLUEone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TATHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +9%
- TFTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +38%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ↗
- Who funds ZAHARA KATHAWALLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Amah Mutsun Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Black Girl Hockey Club ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds EVERY ORG ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF ↗
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: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Blum Merians Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blum Merians Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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