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· Private foundation
MERLIN & LYNITA GEHRING FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$55k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
3
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BAPTIST INT EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES$30,000
- FRIENDS OF ISRAEL GOSPEL MINISTRY$15,000
- CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
02The need
02
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 6%. 51% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Find your warmest path to Merlin & Lynita Gehring Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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