· Private foundation
The Merrick Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oath Central Surgery | $10,000 |
| Youth Endowment Source | $10,000 |
| Numotion | $5,638 |
| Emmanual Cancer Foundation | $5,000 |
| 100 Black Men of Phila | $3,500 |
| Grands Stepping Up | $3,000 |
| Ed Banes Memorial Scholarship Fund | $2,500 |
| Food for the Poor Jamica | $2,000 |
| Sandstone Care | $1,800 |
| City Team | $1,000 |
| Propel Kids Foundation | $1,000 |
| Delco Training Center | $414 |
| Brandwine Youth Club | $370 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 5% of The Merrick Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 51%.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TETHE EMMANUEL CANCER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +102%
- QTQUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC2× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +54%
- CMCITYTEAM MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MWMobility Works Leonard Parkone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
To foster the courage and strength in children and families to meet life's challenges and build fulfilling lives serving new haven, hartford and tolland counties.
Organization - kids beating cancer, inc., (kbc) is a nonprofit, nonstock florida corporation formed in 1992. kbc provides access to life-saving treatments through the science of cellular therapy and advancing pediatric innovative, novel,…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Our mission is to provide high-quality support and advocacy for children, adults and families to develop and nurture safe, permanent relationships and maximize individual growth.
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
Bounce children's foundation transforms the lives of chronically ill children, and their families, shifting all from surviving to thriving.
Medical facility providing physical, occupational and speech therapy for children with a wide range of special needs, including down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy and many more. we see children from 18 months to 13 years old.
When a family is in crisis, Bridges is there to offer support by providing respite and host homes for children in our community. Children visit respite homes for several hours after school or on weekends to enjoy the benefit of a nurturing…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 86 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Merrick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Merrick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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