Mercer Family Foundation (Oregon)

Not to be confused with the Mercer Family Foundation, the private foundation of the family of Renaissance Technologies investor Robert Mercer.

At-A-Glance

Issue Areas: Education Policy
Location: Lake Oswego, OR View on map
Tax ID: 46-5733896
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $673,906 Revenue: $41,862 Expenses: $50,245

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    The Mercer Family Foundation of Oregon is a small foundation that awards scholarships of up to $7,500 to students planning to major in math and science and attend seven universities in Oregon. In the 2020-21 school year, the foundation awarded 11 scholarships.1

    This foundation should not be confused with the Mercer Family Foundation headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, which was founded by hedge fund executive Robert Mercer and is now headed by his daughter, Rebekah Mercer.  The Florida-based Mercer Family Foundation does not have a website.

    Programs

    The Mercer Family Foundation of Oregon’s single charitable program is providing scholarships to junior- and senior-year students majoring in math or science who attend the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University, Oregon Institute of Technology, Eastern Oregon University, Southern Oregon University, or Western Oregon University.2 In the 2020-21 school year, the foundation awarded 11 scholarships.1

    Financials

    In its 2018 tax returns, the Mercer Family Foundation of Oregon reported making $29,500 in grants to its scholarship recipients and spending $1,698 on other expenses.3

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $673,906 $41,862 $50,245 View
    2024 $618,986 $36,818 $54,094 View
    2023 $550,561 $84,311 $51,259 View
    2022 $458,672 $34,766 $40,441 View
    2021 $526,364 $51,477 $35,947 View
    2020 $435,854 $62,509 $31,770 View

    Prior year filings: 2015, 2014

    Expenses Detail

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $62,729
    • Number of Grants: 15
    • Number of Recipients: 11

    Mentioned in this Article

    References

    1. “Recipients,” Mercer Family Foundation website, https://www.mercerff.org/recipients (accessed February 26, 2021).
    2. “About the Foundation.” mercerff.org. Accessed March 2, 2021. https://www.mercerff.org/.
    3. Mercer Family Foundation (Oregon), Return of a Private Foundation, 2018, Part I Lines 24 and 25. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/465733896/08_2019_prefixes_46-46%2F465733896_201812_990PF_2019083016610139