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MERCER FRIENDS

MERCER FRIENDS (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,250 to it, the largest being LENEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ($1,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$43k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$847k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($87k) Expenses 100 ($73k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 95 ($83k) Expenses 108 ($79k) Net assets 105 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 32 ($28k) Expenses 94 ($69k) Net assets 101 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue -25 ($-21398) Expenses 102 ($75k) Net assets 92 ($985k)2021 Revenue 98 ($86k) Expenses 110 ($81k) Net assets 93 ($990k)2022 Revenue 16 ($14k) Expenses 115 ($84k) Net assets 86 ($919k)2023 Revenue 49 ($43k) Expenses 85 ($62k) Net assets 84 ($899k)2024 Revenue 62 ($54k) Expenses 98 ($72k) Net assets 82 ($882k)2025 Revenue 50 ($43k) Expenses 105 ($77k) Net assets 79 ($847k)
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Revenue (50)Expenses (105)Net assets (79)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $985k (−9%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$985k
$990k
$919k
$899k
$882k
$847k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MERCER FRIENDS’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 MERCER FRIENDS's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

MERCER FRIENDS's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2025.

Months of reserve3.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MERCER FRIENDS

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 New Jersey

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCER FRIENDS: 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 MERCER FRIENDS?
MERCER FRIENDS (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,250 to it, the largest being LENEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ($1,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MERCER FRIENDS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,250 in grants to MERCER FRIENDS.
Who is the largest funder of MERCER FRIENDS?
LENEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERCER FRIENDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 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