New York · Nonprofit
MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC
MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,069,877 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,650,884). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 393 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 393 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared funders
- The Zarabi Family Foundationportfolio match
- Robert & Simone Kahen Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
23 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
84% of MERIT SPREAD 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. Of the $1.5M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 14 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 62 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- The Zarabi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert & Simone Kahen Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- I Chera & Sons Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mann Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Schoor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack Chehebar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tikun Olam Jeff & Shira Eisenberg Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sarna Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ims Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David J Beyda Memorial Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish Community Foundation of Orange Countyshared fundersCA · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 MERIT SPREAD 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC?
- MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,069,877 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,650,884). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $9,069,877 in grants to MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,650,884 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 62funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing