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Mercury One Inc

Mercury one is a humanitarian aid and education organization focused on restoring the human spirit.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$831k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Food & Nutrition$32MInternational$9.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$8.0MReligion$6.9MHuman Services$753kArts & Culture$625kHealth$392kEducation$287kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $5,432,734, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,018,120 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $585,386 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.9M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILD UP FOUNDATION INC$831,000
SHAI FUND INC$484,890
EXCEL COLLEGE DBA CREATED INSTITUTE INC$478,000
WE MUST PROJECT$425,419
OPERATION BBQ RELIEF$380,000
OPERATION BLESSING$370,000
SOMEBODY CARES$365,500
JACK BREWER FOUNDATION$325,000
JACO BOOYENS MINISTRIES$250,000
JASE MEDICAL$242,350
TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH$219,183
ITDRC$150,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$134,000
HARVEST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$100,000
STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION DBA NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Prager University: $21k → 14%LIGHTHOUSE CHARITY TEAM: $100k → 14%Operation BBQ Relief: $558k → 8%Save Our Allies: $100k → 9%Lighthouse Charity Team: $55k → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $380k → 8%TREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION: $16k → 5%Lighthouse Charity Team: $50k → 14%Operation BBQ Relief: $260k → 8%A Soldiers Child Foundation: $7k → 9%TREASURED VESSELS FOUNDATION: $13k → 5%Light House Charity Team: $44k → 14%Operation BBQ Relief: $130k → 8%Lighthouse Charity Team: $10k → 14%Operation BBQ Relief: $115k → 8%Hope's Door New Beginning: $85k → 5%Embrace Grace: $20k → 11%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $105k → 8%Hope's Door New Beginning: $85k → 5%Operation BBQ Relief: $75k → 8%HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING: $83k → 5%EMBRACE GRACE: $18k → 11%Operation BBQ Relief: $60k → 8%Hope's Door New Beginning: $7k → 5%Operation BBQ Relief: $58k → 8%ASSIST THE OFFICERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ITDRC: $10k → 11%ITDRC: $10k → 11%SM Wright Foundation: $56k → 14%SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $55k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $52k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $15k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $11k → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $5k → 14%DeliverFund: $119k → 14%DeliverFund: $75k → 14%DeliverFund: $72k → 14%DeliverFund: $17k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 54 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
57

Total granted

$57M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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 ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +18%
  • OB
    OPERATION BBQ RELIEF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +63%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $589k · revenue +383%

Funded once

  • SM
    STEPHEN M RASCHE IOLTA
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M
  • GC
    GATEWAY CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $180k
  • AP
    ARCHANGEL PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
2
I58 Global

i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.

Human Services
3
Crisis Response International

To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide

Public Safety & Disaster
4
UnBound North Texas

Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.

—
5
She Is Safe Inc

She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…

International
6
The Forgotten International

The Forgotten International (TFI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the welfare of impoverished and "forgotten" people in the poorest areas of the world.

International
7
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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8
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
9
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
10
Living Water International

Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Human Services
11
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
12
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minuteman Disaster Response Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tufenkian Foundation Inc. 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

94 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. 94 of the 132 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/94
Grantees still filing
56/94
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Nazarene Fund LLC: $37,860,330 · OtherThe Nazarene Fund LLCOrphan Secure: $2,539,000 · OtherWhite Mountain Research: $1,726,793 · Other+75 more: $7,999,267 · Other+75 moreSHAI FUND INC: $1,878,800 · InternationalOperation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $1,058,365 · InternationalGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC: $318,300 · InternationalSEED FOR CHANGE: $218,185 · InternationalHAYOVEL INC: $207,000 · International+7 more: $368,500 · InternationalOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $1,740,000 · Human ServicesSOMEBODY CARES AMERICA INC: $848,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $300,141 · Human ServicesDeliverFund: $282,150 · Human ServicesHOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $260,571 · Human ServicesSM Wright Foundation: $189,000 · Human Services+7 more: $200,650 · Human ServicesTEAM RUBICON INC: $1,900,652 · Public Safety & DisasterINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $365,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJASE MEDICAL: $242,350 · Public Safety & DisasterMINUTEMAN DISASTER RESPONSE FOUNDATION: $190,500 · Public Safety & Disaster+4 more: $156,026 · Public Safety & DisasterPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $1,218,000 · PhilanthropyLife Santa: $115,000 · PhilanthropyTUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $52,250 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $588,594 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM SHIELD FOUNDATION: $359,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC: $218,335 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $62,088 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $122,629 · Arts & CultureServant Foundation: $683,864 · ReligionCREATED INSTITUTE INC: $478,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $70,000 · ReligionSHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $69,000 · Religion+2 more: $25,000 · Religion
Other$50,125,390International$4,049,150Human Services$3,820,512Public Safety & Disaster$2,854,528Philanthropy$1,485,250Arts & Culture$1,350,646Religion$1,325,864

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrphan Secure: $2,539,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $1,900,652 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSHAI FUND INC: $1,878,800 over 3y, 43% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $1,740,000 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $1,218,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetOperation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation: $1,058,365 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOMEBODY CARES AMERICA INC: $848,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetServant Foundation: $683,864 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $588,594 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION: $554,974 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWe Must Protect Inc: $450,419 over 2y, 20% of budgetINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC: $365,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFREEDOM SHIELD FOUNDATION: $359,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetJACK BREWER FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC: $318,300 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $300,141 over 5y, 11% of budgetDeliverFund: $282,150 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $260,571 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetJASE MEDICAL: $242,350 over 1y, 100% of budgetDALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC: $218,335 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetSEED FOR CHANGE: $218,185 over 3y, 47% of budgetHAYOVEL INC: $207,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMINUTEMAN DISASTER RESPONSE FOUNDATION: $190,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $189,966 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSM Wright Foundation: $189,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $165,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetThe Provisions Project Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetFEEDING CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $143,750 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $118,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLife Santa: $115,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetSave Our Allies: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNADIA'S INITIATIVE INC: $92,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBRAIN TREATMENT FOUNDATION: $85,300 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetFamily Life Center Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHARETOGETHER ORG: $70,889 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHILOH ISRAEL CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $69,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $62,088 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBNAI ZION FOUNDATION INC: $57,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRecovery Resource Council: $52,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMissions on Wheels Inc: $51,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetThe Blessing Projects: $45,800 over 3y, 23% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $43,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEmbrace Grace Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $34,129 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER IRVING-LAS COLINAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $34,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 Orphan Secure ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAI FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds SOMEBODY CARES AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Servant Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CREATED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds We Must Protect Inc ↗
  • Who funds INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM SHIELD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACK BREWER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DeliverFund ↗
  • Who funds HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JASE MEDICAL ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SEED FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds HAYOVEL INC ↗
  • Who funds MINUTEMAN DISASTER RESPONSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds The Provisions Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationHillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Christian Community F…Dallas Jewish Communi…North Texas Food BankServant FoundationMorton H Meyerson Fam…United Way of Metropo…The Moody FoundationRuth C and Charles S …
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX29.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · North Texas Food Bank · Servant Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Inc

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 Mercury One Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercury One Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Mercury One Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 132 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 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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