Florida · Private foundation
The Merz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $687k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Merz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $567k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $441k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $251k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $278k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $300k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $240k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willistown Conservation Trust Inc | $343,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Zoological Society of Philadelphia | $143,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Misty Meadows Mitey Riders Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Genesis Rehabilitation Hospital Inc | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Franklin Institute | $97,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Episcopal Academy | $82,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lankenau Medical Center Foundation | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Quinnipiac University | $53,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation | $52,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($406k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Merz 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: Chester County Community Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Simkiss Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Merz Family Foundation
- How much does The Merz Family Foundation give?
- The Merz Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $686,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Merz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Environment (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Merz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ($343k), Zoological Society of Philadelphia ($143k), Misty Meadows Mitey Riders Inc ($135k).
- Does The Merz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Merz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Merz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, Hamilton Family Foundation, Claneil Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Merz Family Foundation based?
- The Merz Family Foundation is based in FL.
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