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Merancas Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
140
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$25MHuman Services$24MHousing & Shelter$21MHealth$11MFood & Nutrition$7.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.8MCrime & Legal$4.1MYouth Development$3.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 140 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$174M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 10%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSE: $100k → 16%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSE: $100k → 16%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSE: $100k → 16%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $200k → 10%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSE: $100k → 16%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $200k → 10%ARM IN ARM: $100k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSE: $100k → 16%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $200k → 10%ARM IN ARM: $100k → 11%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $200k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $200k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $175k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $150k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $150k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $150k → 10%ARM IN ARM: $120k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $100k → 11%OURBRIDGE INC: $130k → 10%OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS INC: $100k → 10%OURBRIDGE INC: $100k → 10%OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS INC: $100k → 10%NOURISH UP: $250k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $250k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $106k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $100k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $100k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $100k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $100k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $100k → 10%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $100k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $100k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $100k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1.0M → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $500k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $500k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $400k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $300k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $250k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $250k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $250k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $250k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $250k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $150k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $200k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $125k → 10%LOAVES & FISHESFRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $200k → 10%LOAVES & FISHESFRIENDSHIP TRAYS: $200k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107M · 201 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
19

Total granted

$107M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-8%

Still filing today

72%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Crisis Assistance Ministry
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +27%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +70%
  • ROOF ABOVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • C(
    CRITTENTON (FORMERLY FLORENCE CRITT
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • TC
    The Center for Community Transitions
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
2
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
3
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
4
Carolina Human Reinvestment

Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "

Crime & Legal
5
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

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.

Education
7
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
8
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
9
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

—
10
The Arc of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
11
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our House Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Steve Smith Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
159/167
Grantees still filing
122/167
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10,600,000 · OtherCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGEAMERICAN RED CROSS: $4,500,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $2,950,000 · OtherYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $2,505,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHARLOT: $2,415,000 · Other+108 more: $35,646,000 · Other+108 moreCrisis Assistance Ministry: $3,430,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Mini…Charlotte Family Housing: $1,760,870 · Human ServicesCharlotte Family Housi…THE RELATIVES INC: $1,700,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INCAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $910,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $900,000 · Human ServicesUnion County Community Shelter: $895,000 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $850,000 · Human ServicesMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $850,000 · Human ServicesARM IN ARM INC: $770,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance Inc: $760,000 · Human Services+29 more: $9,097,165 · Human Services+29 moreHOMEFRONT INC: $1,295,000 · EducationHOMEFRONT I…Teach for America Inc: $1,150,000 · EducationTeach for A…KIPP CHARLOTTE INC: $875,000 · EducationKIPP CHARLO…The ROC Charlotte Inc: $840,000 · EducationThe ROC Cha…Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $675,000 · EducationCharlotte B…Common Wealth Associates Inc: $590,000 · EducationCommon Weal…Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte: $585,000 · EducationTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $550,000 · EducationCOLLEGE AIM INC: $489,710 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $485,000 · EducationAllegro Foundation Inc: $480,000 · EducationDigi-Bridge: $460,000 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $440,000 · Education+11 more: $2,127,000 · Education+11 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $3,425,000 · HealthHope Haven Inc: $925,000 · HealthPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $900,000 · HealthCare Ring Inc: $885,000 · HealthCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $575,000 · HealthSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $465,000 · Health+6 more: $1,040,000 · HealthSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $1,550,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,040,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $940,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN RECIPE INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionROOF ABOVE INC: $3,085,000 · Arts & CultureCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance: $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $700,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $350,000 · Crime & LegalPREVENTION EDUCATION INC: $310,000 · Crime & LegalDOVE HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $270,000 · Crime & LegalChanged Choices Inc: $180,000 · Crime & LegalLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $100,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$58,616,000Human Services$21,923,035Education$11,041,710Health$8,215,000Food & Nutrition$3,680,000Arts & Culture$3,085,000Crime & Legal$2,910,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $3,430,000 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $3,425,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $3,085,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $2,505,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $1,875,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $1,760,870 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $1,700,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,675,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $1,550,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $1,500,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $1,425,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $1,295,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc: $1,175,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,150,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $1,040,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance: $1,000,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $940,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetHope Haven Inc: $925,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $910,000 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $900,000 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $900,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUnion County Community Shelter: $895,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetCare Ring Inc: $885,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetKIPP CHARLOTTE INC: $875,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNourish Up: $850,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $850,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetThe ROC Charlotte Inc: $840,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetARM IN ARM INC: $770,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $760,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetSupportive Housing Communities Inc: $725,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY: $700,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $700,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetWOMANSPACE INC: $700,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $700,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $675,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL: $650,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC: $650,000 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $630,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COUNTY CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY INC: $595,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetCommon Wealth Associates Inc: $590,000 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetAugustine Literacy Project - Charlotte: $585,000 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES: $580,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $575,000 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC: $575,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $550,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetRescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: $545,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetInReach: $545,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $535,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budget
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.

United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC140.9× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 229 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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