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Merrick Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$512k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Religion$808kHousing & Shelter$630kEducation$598kHuman Services$582kHealth$480kPhilanthropy$320kPublic Benefit$250kInternational$248kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

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
$17,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 9%HEREFORD SPORTSPLEX: $50k → 17%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $25k → 8%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 9%HEREFORD SPORTSPLEX: $50k → 17%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $5k → 8%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 9%RACHEL'S CHALLENGE: $4k → 8%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 9%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $25k → 9%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $25k → 9%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $25k → 9%HIDEAWAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 20%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $25k → 9%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $5k → 9%HIDEAWAY FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%HIDEAWAY FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $60k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $57k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $50k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $50k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $50k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $25k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $7k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $5k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
IL
NY
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NJ
CA
CO
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VA
KS
TN
NC
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DC
OK
AL
GA
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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 47 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$4.0M
$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+31%

Still filing today

60%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationInternationalHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MH
    Mile High Education Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +131% · 86% of their budget
  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +7%
  • HC
    HOPE CHOICE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $223k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME
    one grant, 2017 · $159k
  • PN
    PANHANDLE NUC INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -94%
  • YW
    YWAM-YOUTH WITH A MISSION
    one grant, 2018 · $17k

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
Wounded Spirits Ministries

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
3
Amazing Facts International

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…

Religion
4
American Bible Society

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.

Religion
5
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
6
Vision International Missions

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…

Religion
7
The Porch Ministries

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…

Religion
8
What Matters Ministries and Missions

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.

Religion
9
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
10
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
11
Christian Heritage Broadcastinginc

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…

12
Heart Bridge International

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…

Religion

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%20%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr10%22%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,757

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

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $310,500 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INCHEAL THE CITY — $310,000 · OtherHEAL THE CITYGUYON SANDERS RESOURCE CENTER — $250,000 · OtherGUYON SANDERS RESOURCE CENTERCHILDREN'S HOME — $159,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOMESALVATION ARMY — $121,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE — $114,000 · OtherAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICECARENET PREGNANCY CENTERS — $105,000 · OtherBETHESDA OUTREACH CENTER — $100,000 · OtherCHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISREAL — $75,000 · Other+32 more — $479,210 · Other+32 moreFAITH CITY INC — $304,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY INCADVO COMPANIES INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesADVO COMPANIES INCPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $100,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOME …HEREFORD SPORTSPLEX INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesHEREFORD SPORTSPLE…RACHEL'S CHALLENGE — $33,600 · Human ServicesHIDEAWAY FOUNDATION — $30,500 · Human Services+4 more — $34,500 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $215,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC — $190,000 · ReligionREACHING SOULS IN…Marriage Today — $182,500 · ReligionMarriage TodaySHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC — $44,905 · ReligionSHARING HOPE MINI…GLORY OF ZION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC — $35,000 · Religion+3 more — $1,700 · ReligionMile High Education Services — $490,000 · EducationMile High Educa…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $67,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER …RELATIONAL WISDOM 360 — $22,500 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationHOPE CHOICE INC — $223,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $27,000 · HealthBRIDGES TO LIFE — $50,000 · Crime & LegalOPERATION SMILE INC — $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $12,500 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated — $9,700 · InternationalLOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN — $5,000 · International
Other$2,023,710Human Services$707,600Religion$669,105Education$589,500Health$250,000Crime & Legal$50,000International$47,200

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 budgetMile High Education Services — $490,000 over 9y, 86% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $310,500 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetFAITH CITY INC — $304,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE CHOICE INC — $223,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $215,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC — $190,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMarriage Today — $182,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetADVO COMPANIES INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $100,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHEREFORD SPORTSPLEX INC — $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $67,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC — $44,905 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetGLORY OF ZION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL'S CHALLENGE — $33,600 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHIDEAWAY FOUNDATION — $30,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPANHANDLE NUC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRELATIONAL WISDOM 360 — $22,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapistrano Valley Christian Schools Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $5,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE A21 CAMPAIGN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOne Love Initiative dba Circuit Riders — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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.

High Plains Christian Ministries FoundationTX30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Merrick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Merrick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 70 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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