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Merrick Foundation Inc

Improve the quality of life in merrick county by directing charitable funds to achieve maximum benefits.

$543k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$870kHuman Services$752kArts & Culture$704kEducation$631kRecreation & Sports$386kPublic Safety & Disaster$129kMembership Benefit$53kHousing & Shelter$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $164,565, the rows itemized in this filing. The $543,459 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $378,894 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$53,105
SILVER CREEK SONS OF AMERICAN$38,800
MERRICK COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT$12,650
MERRICK CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM$10,000
PLATTE PEER GROUP$10,000
MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING$9,000
CHAPMAN COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT$8,000
MERRICK CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM$6,600
PALMER PUBLIC SCHOOL$6,000
CLARKS PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,250
CENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION$5,160
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $181k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 11%MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $10k → 12%MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $9k → 11%MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $8k → 11%MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $8k → 11%PALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $70k → 9%PALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 9%PALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%PALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 23 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
14

Total granted

$3.4M
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
0%

Still filing today

43%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MM
    Merrick Medical Center
    3× · 2017–2022 · $682k · revenue +317%
  • MC
    MERRICK COUNTY CHILD CARE INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +41% · 33% of their budget
  • PP
    PLATTE PEER GROUP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $326k · revenue +53% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • LS
    LITTLE STORM CHILDCARE
    one grant, 2024 · $48k · 35% of their budget
  • PR
    PALMER RESCUE SQUAD
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • MC
    MERRICK COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CORP
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue -64%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The nebraska chamber of commerce & industry (the chamber) is a statewide business organization established to maintain and improve the economic progress and business climate of the state of nebraska. the chamber was organized to promote,…

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2
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
3
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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4
Methodist Fremont Health

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…

Health
5
Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports
6
American Legion Dept of Nebraska

State affiliate of the national american legion. mission is to promote the welfare of us veterans and their dependents, to promote americanism, and to provide educational and recreational programs for american youth.

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7
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

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8
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska Foundation
Human Services
9
Nebraska Pediatric Practice Inc

Provides a means whereby the resources, expertise, and knowledge of the pediatric specialty physicians can be marshaled to develop, promote, and make available to patients from omaha, ne and the surrounding area, pediatric, academic, and…

Health
10
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
11
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
12
Nebraska State Afl-Cio

Labor relations

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Merrick Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Legion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $971,782 · OtherCENTRAL CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSMerrick Medical Center Foundation: $137,600 · OtherMerrick Medical Center FoundationCENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $124,004 · OtherCENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCMERRICK CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $89,742 · OtherPALMER PUBLIC SCHOOL: $67,822 · Other+24 more: $541,192 · Other+24 moreMERRICK COUNTY CHILD CARE INC: $489,763 · Recreation & SportsMERRICK COUNTY CHILD CAR…PLATTE PEER GROUP: $326,154 · Recreation & SportsPLATTE PEER GROUP+2 more: $14,641 · Recreation & SportsMerrick Medical Center: $682,333 · HealthMerrick Medical Cent…PALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,560 · Human ServicesMIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $45,421 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $56,400 · EducationLITTLE STORM CHILDCARE: $47,500 · EducationSTATE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSILVER CREEK SONS OF AMERICAN: $38,800 · Public BenefitOmaha Community Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $8,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,932,142Recreation & Sports$830,558Health$682,333Human Services$180,981Education$103,900Arts & Culture$40,000Public Benefit$38,800Philanthropy$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMerrick Medical Center: $682,333 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMERRICK COUNTY CHILD CARE INC: $489,763 over 6y, 33% of budgetPLATTE PEER GROUP: $326,154 over 9y, 53% of budgetMerrick Medical Center Foundation: $137,600 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetPALMER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,560 over 4y, 12% of budgetCENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $124,004 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMERRICK CO HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $89,742 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $56,400 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFARMHOUSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLITTLE STORM CHILDCARE: $47,500 over 1y, 35% of budgetMIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $45,421 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMERRICK FOUNDATION INC: $20,615 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMERRICK COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CORP: $18,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION LONE TREE POST 6: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMERRICK COUNTY HEALTH & FITNESS CTR: $9,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC: $5,141 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds STATE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER CREEK SONS OF AMERICAN ↗
  • Who funds MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRICK COUNTY ENTERTAINMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds American Legion Post 120 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION LONE TREE POST 6 ↗
  • Who funds MERRICK COUNTY HEALTH & FITNESS CTR ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Merrick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Merrick Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Merrick Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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