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Meritage Cares Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $146k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $244k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $423k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| NO CHILD HUNGRY | $250,275 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $250,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BUILDING TALENT FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTY | $112,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE | $50,000 |
| FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHE BUILT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA A&T REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| C4 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| NAWIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 32 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k 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
- NANATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
- NCNo Child Hungry Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $687k · revenue +20%
- IIINROADS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $230k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- VOVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -7%
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $142k · revenue +40%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +28%
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Family assistance ministries is a faith-based charitable non-profit organization assisting those in need in southern orange county with resources for food, shelter, and personalized counsel and aid, helping clients bridge the gap from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Winters Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
221 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 221 of the 276 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Building Talent Foundation ↗
- Who funds No Child Hungry Inc ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INROADS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds The North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NAWIC Education Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHE BUILT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEAID GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds REFLECTIONS OF TRINITY INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Boys Town Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Scsymmes Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc
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 Meritage Cares 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cohen Veterans Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Everyday Blessings Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Basca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Help a Diabetic Child Inc — 0% of income from government
- Matthew's Hope Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Her Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
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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