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Merrill Family Charitable Foundation

Name: Merrill Family Charitable Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

292
grants reported: $3.1M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

James Merrill House Foundation3 grants · $320,000
Mira Coalition4 grants · $200,000
Corporate Accountability International2 grants · $120,000
Agricultural Stewardship4 grants · $111,000
Company One4 grants · $107,500
Ies Abroad1 grant · $100,000
Doctors Without Borders4 grants · $90,000
Boston Lyric Opera Company3 grants · $80,000
United Help Ukraine4 grants · $65,000
Fos Feminista4 grants · $64,000

Giving over time

$816,200

2022

$720,000

2023

$727,000

2024

$828,500

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 292 grants.

$250,000
James Merrill House Foundation · Stonington, CT · 2022
General support
$100,000
Ies Abroad · Chicago, IL · 2025
General support
$65,000
Mira Coalition · Boston, MA · 2025
General
$60,000
Catskills Agrarian Alliance · Hamden, NY · 2025
General support
$60,000
Corporate Accountability International · Boston, MA · 2025
General support
$60,000
Corporate Accountability International · Boston, MA · 2024
General support
$60,000
James Merrill House Foundation · Stonington, CT · 2023
General support
$50,000
Boston Lyric Opera Company · Boston, MA · 2024
General
$50,000
Mira Coalition · Boston, MA · 2024
General
$50,000
Mira Coalition · Boston, MA · 2023
General
$45,000
Tupelo Press · North Adams, MA · 2024
General support
$40,000
The Jar · Boston, MA · 2022
General
$35,000
Agricultural Stewardship · Greenwich, NY · 2025
General
$35,000
Agricultural Stewardship · Greenwich, NY · 2024
General
$35,000
Catskills Agarian Alliance · Hamden, NY · 2024
General support
$35,000
Mira Coalition · Boston, MA · 2022
General
$34,000
Cape Cod Modern House Trust · South Wellfleet, MA · 2024
General
$30,000
Wbur · Boston, MA · 2025
General support
$30,000
Company One · Boston, MA · 2023
General
$30,000
Greater Things · Edina, MN · 2023
General support
$30,000
United Help Ukraine · Gaithersburg, MD · 2023
General support
$29,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2022
General
$27,500
Company One · Boston, MA · 2025
General
$25,000
Company One · Boston, MA · 2024
General
$25,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2024
General
$25,000
Agricultural Stewardship · Greenwich, NY · 2023
General
$25,000
Company One · Boston, MA · 2022
General
$25,000
Sustainable Markets Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$23,000
Fos Feminista · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$21,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2023
General
$20,000
Black Ocean Publishing · Boston, MA · 2025
General support
$20,000
Farm and Wilderness Foundation · Plymouth, VT · 2024
General
$20,000
Monadnock Conservancy · Keene, NH · 2024
General support
$20,000
Sustainable Harvest International · Ellsworth, ME · 2024
General
$20,000
Boston Lyric Opera Company · Boston, MA · 2023
General
$20,000
Catskills Agarian Alliance · Hamden, NY · 2023
General support
$20,000
Rainforest Foundation US · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$20,000
Sustainable Harvest International · Ellsworth, ME · 2023
General
$20,000
Center for Agricultural Development · Oneonta, NY · 2022
General support
$20,000
Stonington Village Improvement · Stonington, CT · 2022
General
$18,000
Planned Parenthood of Northern New Engla · Colchester, VT · 2024
General support
$18,000
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
General
$16,000
Agricultural Stewardship · Greenwich, NY · 2022
General
$15,000
Doctors Without Borders · New York, NY · 2025
General
$15,000
Fos Feminista · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Harris Center for Conservation · Hancock, NH · 2025
General support
$15,000
Razom · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Red Bull Theater · New York, NY · 2025
General support
$15,000
Tupelo Press · North Adams, MA · 2025
General support
$15,000
United Help Ukraine · Gaithersburg, MD · 2025
General support
$15,000
Fos Feminista · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$15,000
Emmett Till Interpretive Center · Sumner, MS · 2023
General support
$15,000
The Trust for Public Land · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General
$15,000
Golden Thread Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support
$15,000
Massachusetts Communities Action Network · Dorchester, MA · 2022
General
$14,000
New Hampshire Public Radio · Manchester, NH · 2024
General support
$13,200
Arts Alive · Keene, NH · 2022
General
$13,000
Planned Parenthood of Southwest and · Sarasota, FL · 2023
General
$11,000
Partners in Health · Frederick, MD · 2023
General
$11,000
Fos Feminista · New York Ny, NY · 2022
General support
$11,000
International Consortium of Investigativ · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$11,000
Journalism Development Network · Washington Dc, DC · 2022
General support
$10,000
Aclu Foundation of New Hampshire · San Francisco, CA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Central Square Theater · Cambridge, MA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Harvard Street Neighborhood · Dorchester, MA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Huntington Theatre Company · Boston, MA · 2025
For education programs
$10,000
Lgbtq Senior Housing · Hyde Park, MA · 2025
General support
$10,000
On the Rise · Cambridge, MA · 2025
General support
$10,000
State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
General support
$10,000
Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice · Boston, MA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Sustainable Harvest International · Ellsworth, ME · 2025
General
$10,000
Cambridge Reproductive Heath Consultants · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Emmett Till Interpretive Center · Sumner, MS · 2024
General support
$10,000
James Merrill House Foundation · Stonington, CT · 2024
General support
$10,000
New England Forestry Foundation · Littleton, MA · 2024
General support
$10,000
Rainforest Foundation US · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Razom · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
State Democracy Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$10,000
Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice · Boston, MA · 2024
General support
$10,000
United Help Ukraine · Gaithersburg, MD · 2024
General support
$10,000
Aclu Foundation of New Hampshire · Concord, NH · 2023
General
$10,000
Actors Shakespeare Project · Charlestown, MA · 2023
General support
$10,000
Center for Justice and Accountability · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
$10,000
Central Square Theater · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General
$10,000
Engenderhealth · New York, NY · 2023
General
$10,000
Leleka Foundation · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General support
$10,000
Non-Event · Jamaica Plain, MA · 2023
General
$10,000
Protez Foundation · Oakdale, MN · 2023
General support
$10,000
Syrian American Medical Society Foundati · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$10,000
Uja - Federation of Ny · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
Aclu Foundation of New Hampshire · Concord, NH · 2022
General
$10,000
Boston Lyric Opera Company · Boston, MA · 2022
General
$10,000
Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2022
General support
$10,000
Central Square Theater · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General
$10,000
Global Empowerment Mission · Doral, FL · 2022
General support
$10,000
International Rescue Committee · Albert Lea, MN · 2022
General
$10,000
Macdowell · Peterborough, NH · 2022
General
$10,000
On the Rise · Cambridge, MA · 2022
General support
$10,000
Rainforest Foundation US · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.