California · Nonprofit
THE MERAGE INSTITUTE
THE MERAGE INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,208,000 to it, the largest being ANDRE & KATHERINE MERAGE FOUNDATION OF NEVADA ($18,553,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MERAGE INSTITUTE receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Rpm Foundationshared funders
- The Menezes Foundation Incportfolio match
- The David and Karen Pecker Foundationportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2.6M → $2.4M.
From the IRS filings of THE MERAGE INSTITUTE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE MERAGE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 84% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of THE MERAGE INSTITUTE'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.
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.
- Rpm Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- The Menezes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The David and Karen Pecker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perpetual Kindness Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shakil Ahmed and Faria Abedin Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emily L and Robert E Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pema Chodron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE MERAGE INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MERAGE INSTITUTE: 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 THE MERAGE INSTITUTE?
- THE MERAGE INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,208,000 to it, the largest being ANDRE & KATHERINE MERAGE FOUNDATION OF NEVADA ($18,553,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MERAGE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,208,000 in grants to THE MERAGE INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MERAGE INSTITUTE?
- ANDRE & KATHERINE MERAGE FOUNDATION OF NEVADA is the largest funder on record, with $18,553,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MERAGE INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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