Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Merrick Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $118k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Merrick Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 13 | $46k | 77% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $26k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $22k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $39k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $48k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $29k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $45k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $60k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Inc | $19,175 | 5 | 1% |
| Quest Therapeutic Services Inc | $7,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Cityteam Ministries | $6,413 | 6 | 0% |
| Ed Banes Memorial Scholarship Fund | $3,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Grands Stepping Up | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $2,110 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bridges Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sebastian Riding Associates | $1,110 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope | $537 | 1 | n/a |
| Pathways Pa Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Inc | $19,175 | 5 | 1% |
| Quest Therapeutic Services Inc | $7,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Cityteam Ministries | $6,413 | 6 | 0% |
| Ed Banes Memorial Scholarship Fund | $3,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Grands Stepping Up | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $2,110 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bridges Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sebastian Riding Associates | $1,110 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope | $537 | 1 | n/a |
| Pathways Pa Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breathing Room Foundation Inc | $472 | 1 | 0% |
| Brandywine Youth Club Inc | $370 | 1 | n/a |
| Adopt a Family Inc | $181 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Merrick Family 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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Merrick Family Foundation
- How much does The Merrick Family Foundation give?
- The Merrick Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $46,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Merrick Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Education (18%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Merrick Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Inc ($19k), Quest Therapeutic Services Inc ($7k), Cityteam Ministries ($6k).
- Does The Merrick Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Merrick Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Merrick Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Merrick Family Foundation based?
- The Merrick Family Foundation is based in PA.
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