Merrill Schneider Foundation
Driggs, ID · EIN 45-3176170. Reported 50 grants totalling $171,930 to 50 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Merrill Schneider Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $3,750; the smallest was $180 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Magen David Ado | Ny, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charitable Partnership Fund | Portland, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | Ny, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Force | Ny, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Friends Inc | Georgetown, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Jewish Agency for Israel | Ny, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Comm Foundation of Teton County | Driggs, ID | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Avenues for Youth | Portland, OR | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teleosis Foundation | Chatham, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Friends Latet Humanitarian | Newton, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope for Ukraine Inc | Roseland, NJ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Help Ukraine Inc | Gaithersburg, MD | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Globus Relief | Salt Lake City, UT | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helen Keller International | New York, NY | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holt International Children S Servi | Eugene, OR | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parsa | South Colby, WA | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rotary Foundation of Rotary Interna | Evanston, IL | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $3,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chabad of Northeast Portland | Portland, OR | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Great Mountain Zen Center | Berthoud, CO | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jackson Hole Jewish Community | Jackson, WY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medic Mobile Inc | San Francisco, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Path | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amref Health Africa Inc | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Association for India S Development | College Park, MD | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope for Haiti S Children Ministrie | Cinninnati, OH | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meet International Inc | Boston, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Native American Rights Fund | Boulder, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palestinian Childrens Relief Fund | Kent, OH | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prostate Cancer Research Institute | Culver City, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sewa International Inc | Houston, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Global Hunger Project | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Little Baby Face Foundation | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Touched By Suicide North Texas | Flower Mound, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blanchet House of Hospitality | Portland, OR | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family and Child Services | Portland, OR | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Lawyer Assistance Foundation | Portland, OR | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| D Tree International Inc | Norwell, MA | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Evidence Action | Washington, DC | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Portland | Tigard, OR | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Nations Gathering Center | Martin, SD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building Youth Around the World | West Jordan, UT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwest Zen Sangha | Portland, OR | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wood River Community YMCA | Ketchum, ID | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridgerteton Avalanche Center Foun | Teton Village, WY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Humane Society | Portland, OR | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wood River Jewish Community Inc | Ketchum, ID | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Havurah Shalom | Portland, OR | $180 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 32% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Merrill Schneider Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 440, Driggs, ID, 83422. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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