California · Nonprofit
Meriama Fund
Meriama Fund (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,281,781 to it, the largest being The American Himalayan Foundation ($1,281,781). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $907k
What Meriama Fund does
Mission
The Meriama Fund continues its outreach to provide funding for COVID relief in Nepal. From our own communities to the Himalaya, we support protecting wild places and the creatures that inhabit them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We have a vision that will evolve as Meriama Fund grows, and that is to help women and girls find their wings. Our first emphasis here will be on financial literacy as a powerful tool for self-determination and empowerment.We support public libraries, those invaluable sources of freedom and deep knowledge. We also support innovative ways to teach and encourage the kind of creative, compelling writing that can give wings to feelings and new ideas.From our own communities to the Himalaya, we support protecting wild places and the creatures that inhabit them. Wild places nourish the soul, and wild creatures remind us that we are all interconnected and have a responsibility to be good stewards
$121,244 spentof which $121,244 as grants100% of program spendingof our planet.We believe in the power of art to change lives, and support movement arts that empower and invite empathy for the experiences of others and celebrate the beauty and diversity of the world around us.Our lens for this: dance and martial arts. We are drawn to dance that serves as a reminder of the goodness, power and compassion in ourselves and in others, and bolsters a resilient hope for humanity.Martial arts for women offers a path to developing and recognizing their strength,
courage, and the understanding that they are worth defending and that they can also defend those who are most vulnerable.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $121,244.
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 $917k to $838k (−9%).
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.
84% of Meriama Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Erica Stone
Chair/President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $647k → $264k.
From the IRS filings of Meriama Fund’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 Meriama Fund's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Meriama Fund holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Meriama Fund
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Meriama Fund: 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 Meriama Fund?
- Meriama Fund (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,281,781 to it, the largest being The American Himalayan Foundation ($1,281,781). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Meriama Fund have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,281,781 in grants to Meriama Fund, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meriama Fund?
- The American Himalayan Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,281,781 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meriama Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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