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Merrick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUYON SANDERS RESOURCE CENTER | $125,000 |
| MILE HIGH EDUCATION SERVICES | $120,000 |
| X O MARRIAGE | $55,000 |
| HOPE CHOICE | $40,000 |
| REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| HEAL THE CITY | $30,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $22,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $17,000 |
| BETHESDA OUTREACH CENTER | $15,000 |
| BUCKNER SHOES FOR ORPHAN SOULS | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $5,700 |
| JOYCE MEYERS MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $698k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- MHMile High Education Services9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +131% · 86% of their budget
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +7%
- HCHOPE CHOICE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $223k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2017 · $159k
- PNPANHANDLE NUC INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -94%
- YWYWAM-YOUTH WITH A MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
None
Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 Mile High Education Services ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Marriage Today ↗
- Who funds ADVO COMPANIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HEREFORD SPORTSPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds SHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GLORY OF ZION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RACHEL'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds HIDEAWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE NUC INC ↗
- Who funds RELATIONAL WISDOM 360 ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
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: High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Mays Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc · Amarillo Business Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · The Ware 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 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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