· Private foundation
Merrill & Patricia Kirsch Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of MERRILL & PATRICIA KIRSCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $25,500 |
| RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION WACONIA | $3,000 |
| SAINT PAUL SEMINARY | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC SHOOLS CENTER OF EXELLENCE | $2,000 |
| SHARING & CARING HANDS INC | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +83%- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AWALPHA WOMENS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -9%
- EHENKRATEIA HOUSE OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +37%
- PAPro-Life Action Ministries Incone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +14%
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.
Our mission is to provide immediate, visible and free access to Pregnancy Center Services for Women experiencing a Crisis Pregnancy. Pregnancy Center Services include free ultrasounds, pregnancy testing, compassionate counsel, fetal…
To provide natural integrated ob-gyn healthcare, fertilitycare, and pregnancy help services for all women while honoring life.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
To defend life, to meet physical, social and spiritual needs of those who may be experiencing a crisis pregnancy, to bring healing and wholeness to lives traumatized by abortion, to present the gospel of jesus christ, and to challenge the…
To provide support to unplanned pregnancies.
Orginizations mission to provide free pregnancy/parenting services to women and their familes facing unplanned pregnancies, and to provide limited std testing and treatment. to offer compassionate assistance regarding sexual integrity,…
Our mission at hope life center is to reach the community with the gospel of jesus christ by meeting physical, emotional and spiritual needs of women, men and their unborn children.
The organization strives to empower those most vulnerable to abortion to choose life by offering free medical interventions and support services to those facing an unintended pregnancy. it serves the community with a robust wellness…
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
Pregnancy care center of lagrange is a christ-centered ministry providing medical and educational services to those facing unplanned pregnancies, encouraging sexual integrity, and empowering individuals to make life affirming choices.
The Sacramento Life Center compassionately offers judgment-free support, resources, and free medical services to materially and emotionally equip women and families facing an unplanned or unsupported pregnancy to uphold and honor the value…
An outreach ministry committed to presenting the gospel of jesus christ to women with crisis pregnancies in both word and deed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Students for Life of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Womens Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 ALPHA WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds ENKRATEIA HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Pro-Life Action Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Elevate Life ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Merrill & Patricia Kirsch Charitable 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.
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.