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Merrick Family Foundation
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.
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 $10k22 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETON LASALLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DALLAS | $40,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY | $40,000 |
| THE NETWORK | $35,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,500 |
| JH RANCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ST RITA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $18,000 |
| CISTERCIAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ACT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR LIFE | $15,000 |
| YOUNGLIFE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 10 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; $89k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +193%
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +59%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR QUALITY EDUCATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- MSMCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE - UNIV OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -66%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bevp Birds Eye View Project. 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 30 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 123 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THEOLOGICAL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds OURCALLING INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Denman Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Servant Foundation · Prairie Creek Partners Charitable Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Dan and Martha Lou Beaird Foundation · Rowling Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Texas Instruments 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 Merrick Family 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.
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