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The Merops Foundation 6178-01-16
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Research Institute in Turkey | $160,000 |
| Koc Education Culture and Healthcare | $70,000 |
| University of Michigan | $60,000 |
| University of Michigan | $50,000 |
| Board of Regents of the University of | $45,000 |
| University of Central Florida Foundation | $42,500 |
| University of Chicago | $37,235 |
| University of Pennsylvania Museum | $33,000 |
| The University of Kansas Center for | $25,850 |
| Institute of Nautical Archaeology | $20,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | $20,000 |
| ARTogether | $15,000 |
| American Research Institute in Turkey | $10,000 |
| University of Chicago | $10,000 |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Merops Foundation 6178-01-16’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ARAMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY5× · 2020–2024 · $995k · revenue +74%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $197k · revenue +86%
- IOINSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY4× · 2021–2024 · $181k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- KEKoc Education Culture and Healthcare Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +52% · 35% of their budget
- BOBoard of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the University of Nebraska-Lincolnone grant, 2020 · $37k
- UOUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum ofone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of Calgary is a global intellectual hub located in Canada's most enterprising city. In this spirited, high quality learning environment students will thrive in programs made rich by research, hands-on experiences and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.…
To promote higher education in iraq based on the american liberal arts model.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the university of cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. organizationally, we achieve this through two divisions…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ARTogether ↗
- Who funds Koc Education Culture and Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Merops Foundation 6178-01-16 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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