· Public charity
Merrick Foundation Inc
Improve the quality of life in merrick county by directing charitable funds to achieve maximum benefits.
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.
The 13 grants below total $219,052 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $468,933 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $249,881 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $66,792 |
| LITTLE STORM CHILDCARE | $47,500 |
| PALMER RESCUE SQUAD | $20,000 |
| MAPLEWOOD CORNERS - PALMER HOUSING | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,640 |
| CHAPMAN VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE | $10,000 |
| MERRICK CO FITNESS CENTER | $9,500 |
| MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING | $8,400 |
| PLATTE PEER GROUP | $8,000 |
| LONE TREE LITERARY SOCIETY | $6,680 |
| VILLAGE OF CLARKS | $6,000 |
| CENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,340 |
| NE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,200 |
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 (FY18–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- MMMerrick Medical Center3× · 2017–2022 · $682k · revenue +317%
- MCMERRICK COUNTY CHILD CARE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $477k · revenue +41% · 33% of their budget
- PPPLATTE PEER GROUP8× · 2017–2024 · $316k · revenue +53% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMERRICK COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CORPone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -64%
- MCMERRICK COUNTY YOUTH COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $15k
- CRCLARKS RESCUEone grant, 2019 · $12k
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.
To preserve and protect merrill area sites and heritage. additionally, to provide a facility to house displays and educational opportunities for all.
Operation and maintenance of public cemetery
The mission of mercy community capital is to provide below-market loans in order to support affordable housing developments when conventional financing is not possible or affordable. developers and nonprofit organizations seeking loans…
To promote economic development in Spencer, NE
Meriter hospital, inc. is dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities we serve.
To support local county fair
Pre-school education
Provide assistance to area hospital and health care facilities to help maintain and improve healthcare in mercer county.
Establish and carryout enrichment activities that support the mission of mercer county community college and the community it serves.
Providing primary healthcare services from beginning to end in order to improve lives through community health services.
The mission of methodist fremont health is to improve the quality of life by caring for the body and mind. methodist fremont health supports its mission of caring for people through the provision of inpatient and outpatient hospital…
Private golf club operating exclusivley for recreation and social benefit of its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merrick Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Little Storm Childcare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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 Merrick Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COUNTY CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTE PEER GROUP ↗
- Who funds Merrick Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds PALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds MERRICK CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FARMHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE STORM CHILDCARE ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION LONE TREE POST 6 ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post 120 ↗
- Who funds MERRICK COUNTY HEALTH & FITNESS CTR ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
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.
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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 Inc 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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