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Greg Merage 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Greg Merage Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Jackson Hole, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $102,000 |
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
The jackson hole land trust (jhlt) is a nonprofit that was established in 1980. the land trust's mission is to protect and steward northwest wyoming landscapes for current and future generations. the land trust envisions a legacy of…
The mission of the Jackson hole chamber of commerce is to champion the interest of local businesses, enhance their prosperity and strengthen the economic climate of teton county
To improve the quality of life in rural intermountain west communities by protecting, owning, and creating locally significant keystone conservation properties as public access parks.
The cougar fund protects cougars, bears, wolves, and other native carnivores throughout the americas by educating children and adults about their essential ecological role, by supporting and promoting sound science, and by monitoring state…
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…
The snake river fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting stewardship of and public access to the snake river watershed in wyoming, with an emphasis on partnerships, education and public outreach.
Our mission is to promote mental wellness in teton valley by providing outreach, education, and connection to services.
The Teton County Search and Rescue Foundation provides direct support, community education, and advocacy for the benefit of the Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To support the cheyenne mountain zoological society by investing contributions and managing investment income.
Jhtu was formed in 1983 in jackson, wyoming, to conserve, protect, and restore jackson hole's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. currently jhtu has a membershp of 410 jackson hole residents and others concerned about the precious…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Oahu Waterkeeper. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE A NOTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OAHU WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLAUS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Zuri Pet Rescue Corp ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Greg Merage 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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