Myriad USA was created through the 2024 merger of the King Baudouin Foundation United States and Give2Asia—two organizations with more than 20 years of experience supporting global philanthropy and a shared belief that local knowledge matters in advancing social change.
As a combined entity, Myriad USA has become a one-stop shop offering individual, family, and corporate donors streamlined services and a team with global expertise. In 2025, Myriad USA facilitated $195 million in grants to more than one thousand nonprofits across more than 100 countries.
Before the merger, King Baudouin Foundation United States and Give2Asia had already worked closely together as part of a broader network supporting international giving. They shared aligned missions, strong reputations, complementary geographic expertise, and compatible service models—and had even aligned their fee structures.
Leadership from both organizations came to Fio Partners ready to move forward with the merger. They recognized the need for a structured process to manage the steps and key decisions, and to navigate board dynamics. They wanted support through the negotiations and with transition planning. Eventually, they also saw the critical need to address integration challenges for staff working across different structures and locations.
Fio Partners served as a behind-the-scenes advisor to the shared leadership group, supporting both organizations from the negotiation phase through post-merger integration.
Prior to the board vote, Fio worked closely with the two CEOs and senior staff from each organization to:
- Manage the project and sequence the decisions required to finalize the merger
- Support negotiations around key organizational questions
- Guide leadership teams as they worked with their respective boards
- Help normalize common challenges that arise when combining organizations
- Connect leaders with specialized communications and HR resources as integration issues emerged.
Following the merger, the most significant challenge became integrating staff with different norms and ways of working, who were now part of a larger, global, and hybrid team. Fio’s support here started with designing and facilitating the first in-person retreat of Myriad USA’s combined leadership team. The team-building event helped establish the new organization’s collective vision, values, and norms to guide the team’s efforts in shaping global philanthropy.
For the next two years, Fio also administered Myriad USA’s staff climate and feedback survey to assess organizational health and functioning, monitor the status of its culture integration efforts, and provide guidance to the leadership team based on the results.
The merger created a single organization better positioned to serve donors with global reach and coordinated expertise. In its first year following integration, Myriad USA facilitated $27 million more in grants than the combined pre-merger total, and the following year, expanded by another $26 million.
Importantly, the integration effort extended beyond structural alignment to address the human dimensions of organizational change. Differences in organizational size, geographic distribution, donor engagement practices, and working styles required deliberate attention to communication, trustbuilding, and shared expectations.
Two years after the merger, organizational leaders report that the combined entity is better equipped to support philanthropists and their nonprofit partners, strengthening its ability to generate global social impact.
