· Private foundation
Mericle Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA 250 PA | $37,500 |
| NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WOMAN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| DINNERS FOR KIDS | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 79% 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 +63% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +235%
- TCTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA6× · 2018–2023 · $252k · revenue +216% · 65% of their budget
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA INC2× · 2018–2019 · $201k · revenue +121% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $647k
- HAHAZLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $200k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community service.
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Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community services.
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, and community service.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
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Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley and the most unlike its peers is Dinners for Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARLEY'S MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WILKES-BARRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
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: The Tambur Family Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Luzerne Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone 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 Mericle 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.