THE MERICOS FOUNDATION
EIN 95-3500491, tax year January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. The return the foundation filed, as the IRS published it, with its arithmetic re-done exactly and sealed September 28, 2026.
This is an amended return, read as filed.
This is the latest return the IRS has published for this foundation. Its tax year ended 21 months ago, so a later one may have been filed since and not yet appear in the public file. The IRS received it on October 7, 2025.
Nothing carried into the next year: the return shows the year’s amount paid within the year.
Every line we re-do agrees with the return as filed.
Keep this record for the foundation, year on year: the Filing Record, the foundation’s own order, cancellable in writing for a full refund until thirty days after the filing deadline.
the distributable amount (Part XI ÷ Part X)
undistributed income, Part XII: nothing carried into the next year
of net noncharitable-use assets; the legal test is the distributable amount, not this rate
end of the tax year, Part II
102,560 UNITS FUNDVANTAGE TR AMBRUS INSTL
of total assets, from that one name
Filing Record: $2,600 a year, direct or at cost through the firm that prepares the return. This page stays whether or not the foundation buys anything. Cancel in writing for any reason, any time up to 30 days after your statutory 990-PF filing deadline (or 12 months from invoice, whichever is earlier): the year is refunded in full to the payer, and seals already generated remain checkable. Or write to a person →
Nothing here can be changed quietly. Try it
This page’s own short link: paretoalphasystems.com/p/9587ea62b03c — it fits on a printed page, and whoever opens it can run the same check.
The return’s own arithmetic, re-done
| Line | As filed | Recomputed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum investment return: 5% of net noncharitable-use assets (Part IX line 6) | $2,757,002 | $2,757,001.5 | recomputes, within the form's whole-dollar rounding (difference $0.5) |
| Excise tax: 1.39% of net investment income (Part V line 1) | $48,640 | $48,639.9503 | recomputes, within the form's whole-dollar rounding (difference $0.0497) |
| Distributable amount: minimum investment return − taxes + recoveries − deduction (Part X line 7) | $2,708,362 | $2,708,362 | recomputes exactly |
Where the assets sit, at fair market value
| Part II line | Fair market value | Share of assets |
|---|---|---|
| Cash (line 1) | $409 | <0.1% |
| Savings and temporary cash investments (line 2) | $1.4M | 2.4% |
| Corporate stock (line 10b) | $5.1M | 9.0% |
| Other investments (line 13) | $49.7M | 88.2% |
The ten largest listed stocks, of 37 on the schedule
The schedule ties to Part II line 10b exactly. It behaves like 13.8 equal holdings; the ten largest are 63.2% of the listed stock.
| Stock, as listed | Fair market value | Share of assets |
|---|---|---|
| 102,560 UNITS FUNDVANTAGE TR AMBRUS INSTL | $1M | 1.8% |
| 941 UNITS MIDCAP SPDR TR UNIT SER 1 | $535,975 | 1.0% |
| 1300 UNITS VANGUARD INDEX FDS MID CAP ETF | $343,369 | 0.6% |
| 2658 UNITS ISHARES S&P SMALL CAP 600 | $306,255 | 0.5% |
| 390 UNITS GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC COM | $223,322 | 0.4% |
| 390 UNITS UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC COM | $197,285 | 0.4% |
| 390 UNITS MICROSOFT CORP COM | $164,385 | 0.3% |
| 390 UNITS HOME DEPOT INC COM | $151,706 | 0.3% |
| 390 UNITS CATERPILLAR INC DEL COM | $141,476 | 0.3% |
| 390 UNITS SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO COM | $132,573 | 0.2% |
Largest other investments (line 13), as listed
| WHITTIER CORPORATE AMERICA FUND, LP | $32.3M | 57.4% |
| WHITTIER VALUE FUND A, LP | $7.6M | 13.5% |
| WHITTIER SMALL CAP FUND, LP | $5.2M | 9.2% |
| WHITTIER INTERNATIONAL FUND A, LP | $2.1M | 3.7% |
| MULTIVERSE INVESTMENT FUND I, LP | $1.1M | 1.9% |
What the foundation answered on the form
- Part VI-B 4a: did the foundation invest during the year in a manner that would jeopardize its charitable purposes? No
- Part VI-B 4b: did it make any investment in a prior year that could jeopardize its charitable purpose and that had not been removed from jeopardy? No
- Part VI-B 3a: did it hold more than a 2% direct or indirect interest in any business enterprise? No
- Part VI-B 3b: did it have excess business holdings? Not answered (3a is “No”, so the form does not ask 3b. Our note; not part of the seal.)
- Part VI-B 2a: did it have undistributed income for prior years? No
Quoted as filed. These are the foundation’s own answers; this page does not test them.
Nine controls, read from the return.
Each control reads one part of the filed return and states a fact in a fixed vocabulary: agrees, differs, reported, not reported, not applicable, not checked. Whether any of it met a requirement is counsel’s question, not this page’s.
Recomputed each time the page is read; not part of the seal. The seal covers the body above (controls v2, kernel@2026-09-15.1).
This return: 4 agree, 3 reported, 2 not checked.
| Control | Reads | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum investment return | Part IX line 6 against 5% of line 5, prorated for a short year | agrees | Filed $2,757,002; recomputed $2,757,001.5; agrees within the form's whole-dollar rounding. |
| Excise tax | Part V line 1 against 1.39% of net investment income | agrees | Filed $48,640; recomputed $48,639.95; agrees within the form's whole-dollar rounding. |
| Distributable amount | Part X line 7 against the form's own chain from line 1 | agrees | Filed $2,708,362; recomputed $2,708,362; agrees to the dollar. |
| Payout coverage | Part XI total against Part X line 7 | reported | Qualifying distributions $3,463,284 against a distributable amount of $2,708,362 (1.28×). |
| Payout deadline | Part XII undistributed income and the date it falls due | reported | Part XII reports $0 undistributed income for the year ended 31 December 2024: nothing carried into the next year, so nothing from this year falls due by 31 December 2025. |
| Holdings tie-out | The corporate-stock schedule against Part II line 10b | agrees | 37 listed holdings sum to Part II line 10b exactly; the largest is 1.8% of total assets. |
| The foundation's own answers | Part VI-B 2a, 3a, 3b, 4a and 4b, each answered | reported | All 4 answered No (3b not asked: 3a is No). |
| Filing timeliness | The e-file timestamp beside the original due date and the extension window, each with its IRC §7503 roll to the next business day | not checked | Return timestamped 7 October 2025 as an amended return. An amended return's e-file timestamp is the amendment's; the original return's filing date is not in this file, so the due dates are not compared. |
| Year-to-year continuity | This year's opening balances against last year's closing | not checked | Needs the prior year's return; one sealed year cannot check itself. |
A line that differs is the return’s figure beside the recomputed one, as filed and as recomputed. The return may carry a reason this page cannot read: a schedule filed on paper, an election, a later amendment. It is not a finding. The page is not indexed. It is read by whoever holds the link: the person who asked for it, and anyone the foundation sends it to, its preparer first.
Year-to-year continuity needs two filed years on record. The years, below, reads this foundation’s filed returns in order and holds each against the one before.
A payout is owed on last year’s assets, whatever this year’s market does.
Recomputed each time the page is read; not part of the seal. The seal covers the body above (forward v2, kernel@2026-09-15.1). Read against October 8, 2026.
| By | What | Amount | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2026 Passed | Excise tax on the year ending 31 December 2025, due with that return by 15 May 2026. That date has passed; the figure for that year is on its own return, not this one. | $48,639 | Projected under the assumptions below |
| December 31, 2026 | Distributable amount for the year ending 31 December 2025, to be paid out | $2,708,361 | Projected under the assumptions below |
If net noncharitable-use assets fell 20% over the year ending December 31, 2025: what is owed now, nothing from Part XII, is unchanged; the following year’s minimum investment return would be $2,205,601, $551,400 less than the projection.
The assumptions, the forward kernel proof, and what was refused
- Net noncharitable-use assets for the year ending 31 December 2025 equal this return's Part IX line 5, $55140030; the thirteen-month average is not observable from a filing.
- Net investment income for that year equals this return's, $3499277.
- No recoveries, income tax or deduction next year; the rates stay 5% and 1.39%; a full tax year.
- The fall shown is 20% of net noncharitable-use assets, applied to next year's average only; what is already owed was computed on this year's average and is unchanged.
- Forward kernel proof (the projection’s own, recomputed, not sealed)
962e243528e7c5cd…· kernel@2026-09-15.1 · forward v2, controls v2
- A projection under the stated assumptions, from the foundation's own filed figures; not a forecast, not advice.
- The foundation's preparer computes the actual amounts from the year's monthly values; this page states what the last return implies if nothing changes.
- What is already owed was computed on last year's average assets and does not change with this year's market.
One return is one year. The payout is kept across six.
What a foundation leaves undistributed is due by the end of the next tax year, and what it distributes beyond the year’s amount may be applied in the five years after. So what is owed, and what may be set against it, is only readable across the filed years. The IRS publishes those years; this reads them in order, re-adds each Part XII, and holds each year’s opening lines against the year before’s closing lines.
Sealed under a hash of their own the first time they are opened; not part of the seal above.
Up to six filed returns, read from the IRS and sealed under one hash, at a page of their own. Nothing about you is recorded.
The seal
Recomputed just now: it matches what was sealed on September 28, 2026. Anyone can check it without us.
For your auditor: what this hash is over, and how to check it from the IRS’s own file
9587ea62b03c38132b8e7f030ad974d9a04303a17131949d9104f3ba458ecf22 · recomputed now, matches202542809349101204, schema 2024v5.2 — the file as the IRS published it hashes to 54c3a52eb72223dc…202542809349101204_public.xml inside 2025_TEOS_XML_11B.zip at irs.gov — not part of the seal; fetch it yourself with verify_proof.py 9587ea62b03c --fetchkernel@2026-09-15.1 · kernel proof 4f9271abf977c3a2…b839212b6742304a91af2ff9e04e24acdb32ac9fd48760e6b89289b532c4c45b · commit 7dd856f88a5e — the digest of the 990-PF rules this proof was sealed under (body v2); a proof of the same return under later rules names this hash as supersededThis page is not listed on this site and asks search engines not to index it. It is reached by its link, which whoever asked for it holds.
This foundation’s finance lead or counsel: to add a note beside this page, ask for a correction, or keep the record, write to us.
11,842 foundation returns re-done by the same code; in 11,827 every line we recompute agrees. The study.
This page stays whether or not the foundation buys anything.
Filing Record: $2,600 a year, direct or carried at cost by the firm that prepares the return.
The program, and the full body that was hashed
let total_assets_fmv = 56321023 USD let mix_cash = share(409 USD, total_assets_fmv) let mix_savings = share(1357252 USD, total_assets_fmv) let mix_stock = share(5083554 USD, total_assets_fmv) let mix_other = share(49651008 USD, total_assets_fmv) let net_noncharitable_assets = 55140030 USD let mir_filed = 2757002 USD let mir_recomputed = net_noncharitable_assets * 5% let mir_difference = mir_filed - mir_recomputed let net_investment_income = 3499277 USD let excise_filed = 48640 USD let excise_recomputed = net_investment_income * 1.39% let excise_difference = excise_filed - excise_recomputed let distributable_filed = 2708362 USD let distributable_recomputed = 2757002 USD - 48640 USD + 0 USD - 0 USD let distributable_difference = distributable_filed - distributable_recomputed let qualifying_distributions = 3463284 USD let payout_coverage = qualifying_distributions / distributable_filed let payout_rate = share(qualifying_distributions, net_noncharitable_assets) let undistributed_to_next_year = 0 USD let stocks = [1014318 USD, 535975 USD, 343369 USD, 306255 USD, 223322 USD, 197285 USD, 164385 USD, 151706 USD, 141476 USD, 132573 USD, 130389 USD, 123256 USD, 115748 USD, 113057 USD, 112271 USD, 101650 USD, 97664 USD, 93947 USD, 93487 USD, 88097 USD, 85734 USD, 85562 USD, 69030 USD, 68430 USD, 65384 USD, 56488 USD, 56402 USD, 52373 USD, 50345 USD, 43427 USD, 38797 USD, 35237 USD, 29511 USD, 24281 USD, 23088 USD, 15596 USD, 3639 USD] let stock_count = count(stocks) let largest_stock = max(stocks) let largest_stock_share_of_assets = share(largest_stock, total_assets_fmv) let top10_share_of_stock = share(sum([1014318 USD, 535975 USD, 343369 USD, 306255 USD, 223322 USD, 197285 USD, 164385 USD, 151706 USD, 141476 USD, 132573 USD]), sum(stocks)) let stock_concentration = hhi(stocks) let effective_stock_holdings = 1 / stock_concentration let largest_stock_halved_share_of_assets = share(largest_stock * 50%, total_assets_fmv)
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"This page neither establishes nor rules out any tax consequence, and no return is prepared or amended here.",
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}The seal’s own scope:
- Every figure here is the foundation's own filed return or exact arithmetic on it; nothing is estimated.
- A 990-PF is a year-end snapshot. Prudence is judged at the time of each decision, which a filing cannot show.
- This page neither establishes nor rules out any tax consequence, and no return is prepared or amended here.
- A line that differs is the return's figure beside the recomputed one, as filed and as recomputed. The return may carry a reason this page cannot read: a schedule filed on paper, an election, a later amendment. It is not a finding.
We don’t prepare or file a 990-PF. We read the one the foundation filed, re-do its arithmetic exactly, and seal what it says.