· Private foundation
The Carol L Merlone Educational 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
- $250k+1 grant · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $299,246 |
| SIGMA NU ALUMNI SCHOLARHSHIP FUND | $164,640 |
| UC REGENTS | $74,999 |
| KARMA CLUB TEENS | $62,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| Northwestern University | $13,332 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| University of Michigan | $10,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $10,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $8,333 |
| UC SAN DIEGO | $5,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SNSigma Nu Alumni Scholarship Fund3× · 2020–2022 · $424k · revenue +203% · 43% of their budget
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +50%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NHN HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CHCAMPOLINDO HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k
- BUBOCCONI UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sigma Nu Alumni Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carol L Merlone Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carol L Merlone Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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