Ohio · Nonprofit
J Merrill Foundation Inc
J Merrill Foundation Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $54 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($54). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $909
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $54
- Net assets
- $0
What J Merrill Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide charitable educational and community-based support that strengthens families and serves individuals experiencing need through outreach preparedness and practical assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
J Merrill Foundation Inc provided charitable community support through its Thanksgiving meal program helping individuals and families experiencing need receive meals and practical encouragement during the holiday season. The program reflected the Foundations mission to strengthen families promote dignity and provide direct community-based assistance. The organization coordinated outreach meal support and related charitable assistance for community members served through the program. Approximately 50 individuals and families were served through the program.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of J Merrill Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21 → $33.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of J Merrill Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of J Merrill Foundation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
J Merrill Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like J Merrill Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for J Merrill Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds J Merrill Foundation Inc?
- J Merrill Foundation Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $54 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($54). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does J Merrill Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $54 in grants to J Merrill Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of J Merrill Foundation Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $54 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like J Merrill Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing