· Private foundation
Merancas Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k83 grants · $7.2M
- $250k+13 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,800,000 |
| ROOF ABOVE | $1,100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $900,000 |
| YWCA CENTRAL CAROLINAS | $625,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $500,000 |
| FREEDOM SCHOOL PARTNERS | $400,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY | $250,000 |
| THOMPSON CHILD AND FAMILY FOCUS | $250,000 |
| NOURISH UP | $250,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $250,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $250,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHARLOT | $250,000 |
| HOMEFRONT | $200,000 |
| FREEDOM COMMUNITIES | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $19.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
201 repeat relationships: 130 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Crisis Assistance Ministry9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +27%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +70%
ROOF ABOVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +58%
Funded once
- C(CRITTENTON (FORMERLY FLORENCE CRITTone grant, 2023 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $200k
- TCThe Center for Community Transitionsone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -11%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The Arc of North Carolina is committed to securing for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, and play.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
How this is measured
167 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 167 of the 229 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Freedom School Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Pats Place Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Union County Community Shelter ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
- Who funds The ROC Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Supportive Housing Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ally Charitable Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Womens Impact Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Philip L Van Every Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Merancas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merancas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mount Carmel Guild of Trenton Nj: 100% of income from government
- Womanspace Inc: 47% of income from government
- Anchor House Inc: 45% of income from government
- Prevention Education Inc: 39% of income from government
- Trenton Health Team Inc: 31% of income from government
- Literacy New Jersey Inc: 28% of income from government
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton: 6% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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