· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| University of Chicago | $10,000 |
| American Research Institute in Turkey | $10,000 |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Merops Foundation 6178-01-16’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 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 Koc Education Culture and Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARTogether ↗
- 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Merops Foundation 6178-01-16 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Merops Foundation 6178-01-16. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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