· Private foundation
Eugene F Merkert 1996 Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| INSIGHT FOR THE BLIND | $3,000 |
| VIET TOC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART SOUTHERN MISSIONS | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
Feeding America3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +77%- IFINSIGHT FOR THE BLIND INC3× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +105%
- JAJesus And You Outreach Ministries I2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SPST PHILIP PHAN VAN CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $30k
- HSHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- BOBROWARD OUTREACH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.
The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.
The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…
The lord's place, inc. (the lord's place or agency) is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness for men, women and children in our community. supportive services offered through our housing programs…
Our mission is a seamless, accessible, recovery-oriented system of behavioral health care driven by consumers, providers, and other stakeholders, in which innovation and collaboration are the norm and diversified financial resources…
To provide shelter for families in need and to create an environment providing, time, space and support services which enable homeless families to rebuild their lives. families typically stay one to three years with low turnover. the goal…
Lighthouse ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to communicate the gospel of jesus christ to meet the physical, emotional, and other needs of the poor and at-risk population.
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
City rescue mission, inc. (the organization), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1946, exists to transform the lives of the homeless and needy, serving them through the love and compassion of jesus christ. the organization provides a…
To strengthen our communities by caring for families and individuals impacted by substance abuse and to promote mental well-being. operation par, inc. offers a full continuum of services at locations in pinellas, pasco, lee, manatee,…
Goodwill south florida, serving miami, broward, and monroe counties, is the 17th largest employer in south florida. the nonprofit's mission is the training, employment, and job placement of people with disabilities and other barriers to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Insight for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Jesus And You Outreach Ministries I ↗
- Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Eugene F Merkert 1996 Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.