Oklahoma · Private foundation
The Merrick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $474k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 81
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Merrick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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 | 36 | $470k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $444k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $413k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $497k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $425k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $407k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $413k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $380k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma State University Foundation | $291,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $281,438 | 9 | 0% |
| Mid-America Christian University Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc | $106,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Shelter of Southern Oklahoma | $74,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Food and Resource Center of South Central Oklahoma Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Community Youth Services of Southern Oklahoma | $69,000 | 3 | 5% |
| A Chance to Change Foundation | $47,750 | 4 | 1% |
| The Homeless Alliance Inc | $45,350 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 143 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Merrick Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 114 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Harris Foundation Inc · Cresap Family Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Love Meyer Family Foundation · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Merrick Foundation
- How much does The Merrick Foundation give?
- The Merrick Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $473,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Merrick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Merrick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oklahoma State University Foundation ($291k), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($281k), Mid-America Christian University Inc ($150k).
- Does The Merrick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Merrick Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Merrick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Merrick Foundation based?
- The Merrick Foundation is based in OK.
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