How much did MERRICK FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of MERRICK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

loanbuildinginclusionstudentsintellectual disabilitieschildcare

2020

farmhousepeople's livesfraternitymemberseducationalcapital acquisitionorganized

2021

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2022

student trip

2023

student trip

2024

renovationchildcare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $49k
$10k–50k5 grants · $103k
$50k–250k1 grant · $67k

$9,500

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$2.8M · 23 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

-9%

Still filing today

48%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther

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

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MERRICK MEDICAL CENTER
2× · 2019–2022 · $517k · revenue +317%
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PLATTE PEER GROUP
7× · 2018–2024 · $273k · revenue +26% · 53% of their budget
MC
MERRICK CO CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
4× · 2018–2022 · $262k · revenue +41%

Funded once

MC
MERRICK COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CORP
one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -66%
MC
MERRICK COUNTY YOUTH COUNCIL
one grant, 2018 · $15k
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STATE THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -54%

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.

Merrick Community Services

Merrick community services champions thriving communities by eliminating barriers and providing essential resources to promote stability, independence, economic and social justice.

Human Services

Merrill Historical Society Inc

To preserve and protect merrill area sites and heritage. additionally, to provide a facility to house displays and educational opportunities for all.

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Lincoln County Fair Association Inc

Provide a county fair in merrill wi with the intent to improve and promote agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical and household arts.

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Mercer Foundation for Health

Provide assistance to area hospital and health care facilities to help maintain and improve healthcare in mercer county.

Health

Mercy Community Capital

To provide below-market loans and to serve as a financial and technical resource to support housing development activities that benefit low-income residents

Housing & Shelter

Mercer County Community College Foundati

Establish and carryout enrichment activities that support the mission of mercer county community college and the community it serves.

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Merrick Community Nursery School Inc

Pre-school education

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Nebraska Sports Council

The nebraska sports council, which conducts the cornhusker state games, live healthy nebraska, and nsc racing events, is a nonprofit organization with a mission of providing quality competition for amateur athletes of all ages and to…

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Merrimack College

Merrimack college is a comprehensive, catholic augustinian institution of higher education.

Education

Meriter Hospital Inc

Meriter hospital, inc. is a not for profit, locally governed community hospital. meriter hospital provides a comprehensive array of patient-focused inpatient and outpatient services to meet the health-related needs of our community.

Health

Merrimack Valley Planning

Improving governmental efficiency and operations

Community Improvement

Merrill Pioneer Community Hospital Inc

Facilities, equipment and support are provided to enable high quality, affordable health care services on a non-for-profit basis in order to meet the needs of people of the lyon county, iowa area, which includes northwest iowa and…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merrick Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Lone Tree Post 6. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

10/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,585,911Recreation & Sports$550,396Health$517,333Human Services$171,981Education$103,900Philanthropy$18,500Arts & Culture$15,000

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.

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.

Nebraska Children & Families FoundationNE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nebraska Children & Families Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PLATTE PEER GROUP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562425104 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PLATTE PEER GROUP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Merrick Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Merrick Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MERRICK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Merrick Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

MERRICK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Merrick Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph