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Meriter Health Services Inc

Meriter is dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities we serve.

$435k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$586kHuman Services$153kCommunity Improvement$150kYouth Development$89kHousing & Shelter$87kEducation$74kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kCivil Rights$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $308,296 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $434,676 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,380 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$839M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON METRO SCHOOL DISTRICT$31,216
FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMENS WELLNESS$30,000
YWCA OF MADISON$30,000
ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH$24,680
MADISON REGION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP$20,000
SAFE COMMUNITY COALITION$20,000
MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON$15,000
CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY$12,500
BAYVIEW FOUNDATION$12,000
RAINBOW PROJECT$10,000
THE CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE$10,000
WISCONSIN WOMENS HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTORS INC-MEADOWHOOD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 10%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 10%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 10%YWCA OF MADISON: $30k → 10%YMCA OF MADISON: $25k → 10%YWCA OF MADISON: $25k → 10%YWCA OF MADISON: $25k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 18 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +928%
  • AC
    ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +70%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • YO
    YWCA OF MADISON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -157%
  • CO
    CITY OF MADISON PARKS DIVISION
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
2
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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3
Madison Community Cooperative

Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Education
4
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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5
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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6
Madison Black Chamber of Commerce Inc

The madison black chamber of commerce (mbcc) empowers the greater madison community by growing and sustaining black owned businesses through education, advocacy and developing black wealth to promote the power and impact of black owned…

Community Improvement
7
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
8
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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9
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
10
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
11
Wayforward Resources Inc

Wayforward resources, inc. brings our community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc

Driving innovation for the energy, power, and controls sector by synchronizing market insights, technology innovation and talent & start-up development into a new innovation engine for economic development and growth.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hmong Institute Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr13%9%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr15%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr15%30%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
8%
344/4,092

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $136,011 · OtherACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $67,200 · OtherBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INCMADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT — $61,216 · OtherMADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICTURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $52,050 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INCNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTORS INC — $50,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTORS INCTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INC — $40,000 · OtherTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INCMOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — $20,000 · Other+11 more — $113,983 · Other+11 moreFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $174,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S W…American Heart Association Inc — $76,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUND…MARCH OF DIMES INC — $33,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC+4 more — $32,000 · Health+4 moreYWCA MADISON INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesYWCA MADISON I…CENTRO HISPANO INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO…THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME …+1 more — $5,500 · Human ServicesMADISON REGION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP — $120,000 · Community ImprovementMADISON RE…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR…SAFE COMMUNITY COALITION OF MADISON AND DANE COUNTY INC — $65,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYWCA OF MADISON FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DANE COUNTY LEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentActive Youth Wisconsin Inc — $7,350 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$540,460Health$365,500Human Services$170,500Community Improvement$130,000Public Safety & Disaster$65,000Youth Development$57,350Arts & Culture$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $174,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $136,011 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON REGION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP — $120,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $76,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $67,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE COMMUNITY COALITION OF MADISON AND DANE COUNTY INC — $65,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $52,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF MADISON FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $16,250 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $12,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetActive Youth Wisconsin Inc — $7,350 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBLACK MEN COALITION FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MADISON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…United Way of Dane Co…The Evjue Foundation …The Roots and Wings F…Ascendium Education S…Alliant Energy Founda…Endres Manufacturing …Trustage Foundation I…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ssm Health Care of Wi…The Oscar Rennebohm F…
Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI50.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ssm Health Care of Wisconsin Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm 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 Meriter Health Services Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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