· Private foundation
Merrick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Merrick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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