Denver Art Museum
DENVER, CO
$28.5MTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Kirkland institute endowment
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Merle Chambers Fund Grants
Private foundation · EIN 84-0929410 · IRS 990-PF filings through tax year 2025
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Original filing text
Reported organization name: MERLE CHAMBERS FUND
Giving by tax year
Year-level totals across every reported grant in this profile — a summary, not a filter. The awards further down are the largest individual grants across all years, not each year's complete list.
| Tax year | Grants paid | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | $70.4K |
| 2024 | 193 | $50.1M |
Where Merle Chambers Fund gives
States of grant recipients reported on the foundation's 990-PF filings, by dollars received.
Largest reported grants
Historical awards reported to the IRS. These are examples of past giving, not open opportunities.
Denver Art Museum
DENVER, CO
$3MTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Kirkland institute curator endowment
State Leadership Project
RALEIGH, NC
$750KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
General support
Center for Technology and Civic Lif
CHICAGO, IL
$600KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
General support
The Denver Foundation
DENVER, CO
$501.8KTax year 2024
Grant purpose
Advised fund
Showing 5 of the 25 largest grants (194 reported in all).
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Figures are aggregated from Merle Chambers Fund's IRS Form 990-PF electronic filings (2 filings on file, most recent tax year 2025). Totals reflect grants the foundation reported as paid, and can lag the current year because foundations file annually and often on extension. Source: IRS 990-PF filing on ProPublica. Raw e-file archive (ZIP) — a large IRS yearly archive download.
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