Merlin Charitable Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464351193
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7817889388
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $194,065
- Expenses
- $32,914
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 10 grants totaling $32,000. The stated grant purposes included provide healthcare in war-torn nations, womens healthcare overseas, and purchase of bed nets for affected areas, plus 7 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 100% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and a large share of spending goes to grants. A relatively small share of available resources goes to charitable grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 4
- Cost Efficiency: 97
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 50
- Endowment Health: 38
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 4; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: Limited
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 12.93; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 3.6% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: Filed self-dealing detail
- Investments: 38th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Grant Deployment: Grant deployment ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 38/100.