Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MERAKEY FOUNDATION
MERAKEY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,460 to it, the largest being CENTIMARK FOUNDATION ($109,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $585k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Merakey Foundation does
Mission
To conduct fundraising events and solicit donations to support the operations of its affiliates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Merakey Foundation is a fundraising entity with a mission to align donor generosity with merakey's commitment to whole person care throughout the united states. Since its founding in 1999, the Merakey Foundation has raised millions of dollars through grants, fundraising events, and private donations for merakey programs. The Merakey Foundation is grounded in merakey's purpose, vision and core values: our purpose: putting our heart and soul into exceptional care. Our vision: to be a nationally recognized provider of the highest quality health and human services. Our core values: compassion, diversity, integrity, safety, trust, and qualityhighlights of the foundation's year include:the Merakey Foundation raised $55,750 for merakey's parkside mobile unit at its annual leading the way gala in october 2024. These funds are restricted to the parkside mobile unit to support their work as they support those struggling with homelessness, substance use disorder, and other behavioral health challenges within the city of philadelphia.the foundation organized its annual toy drive to help offset the expenses of holiday giving for our foster care families. In fy25, some 200+ children in…
$355,093 spentof which $355,093 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $355,093.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $7.9M to $10M (+28%).
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.
62% of MERAKEY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joseph Martz
President/CEO
Board chair
Michael Mitchell
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $27k → $34k.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 MERAKEY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MERAKEY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MERAKEY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 42% · 2019 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of MERAKEY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of MERAKEY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
MERAKEY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERAKEY FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 39 related entities
- Merakey USA · exempt
- Merakey Chester County · exempt
- Merakey Bucks County · exempt
- Merakey New Jersey · exempt
- Merakey Pennsylvania · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERAKEY FOUNDATION: 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 MERAKEY FOUNDATION?
- MERAKEY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,460 to it, the largest being CENTIMARK FOUNDATION ($109,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERAKEY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $585,460 in grants to MERAKEY FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERAKEY FOUNDATION?
- CENTIMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $109,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERAKEY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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