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Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,197,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,197,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$7.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$1.4M0%
FY20232$1.5M0%
FY202211$2.2M9%
FY202110$3.9M30%
FY20209$1.0M11%
FY20199$533k44%
FY201810$848k30%
FY201711$324kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$9.5MReligion$812kArts & Culture$490kCrime & Legal$341kPublic Benefit$255kScience & Tech$240kEducation$108kHuman Services$53kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
OR
CA
MD
TN
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maranatha Volunteers International Inc$9,397,500813%
Child Impact International$87,18441%
Amazing Discoveries$77,70061%
Remnant Publications Inc$44,20030%
The Kenneth Cox Ministries$39,20024%
It Is Written Inc$36,70040%
Gospel Outreach$35,00021%
Milo Adventist Academy$20,0001n/a
Light Bearers Ministry$20,00011%
Secrets Unsealed Inc$17,50021%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maranatha Volunteers International Inc$9,397,500813%
Child Impact International$87,18441%
Amazing Discoveries$77,70061%
Remnant Publications Inc$44,20030%
The Kenneth Cox Ministries$39,20024%
It Is Written Inc$36,70040%
Gospel Outreach$35,00021%
Milo Adventist Academy$20,0001n/a
Light Bearers Ministry$20,00011%
Secrets Unsealed Inc$17,50021%
White Horse Ministries Inc$16,00022%
Rogue Valley Adventist Academy$10,0001n/a
Better Life Television$2,50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaranatha Volunteers International Inc: $9,397,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetChild Impact International: $87,184 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAmazing Discoveries: $77,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRemnant Publications Inc: $44,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Kenneth Cox Ministries: $39,200 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetIt Is Written Inc: $36,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGospel Outreach: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLight Bearers Ministry: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSecrets Unsealed Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWhite Horse Ministries Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBetter Life Television: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Asi Missions IncMD22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asi Missions Inc · Popoff Family Foundation · Fjarli Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc

How much does Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc give?
Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $1,447,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (81%), Religion (7%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maranatha Volunteers International Inc ($9.4M), Child Impact International ($87k), Amazing Discoveries ($78k).
Does Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Asi Missions Inc, Popoff Family Foundation, Fjarli Foundation.
Where is Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc based?
Merlin & Jo Ann Fjarli Foundation Inc is based in OR.

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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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