· Public charity
Merrill Area United Way Inc
Disburse funds to other nonprofit organizations
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $210,914 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $229,089 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,175 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $26,000 |
| MERRILL COMMUNITY HOMELESS CENTER | $24,500 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROG | $20,000 |
| HAVEN | $18,000 |
| PARKSIDE PRESCHOOL CENTER | $18,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $17,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $15,000 |
| PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS COUNSELING | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $13,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY - WI | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY | $10,914 |
| OUR SISTERS PLACE | $10,000 |
| CHILDCARING | $6,000 |
| HEALTHY MINDS FOR LINCOLN COUNTY | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- SVSAINT VINCENT DEPAUL CABRINI CONFERENCE4× · 2017–2020 · $84k · revenue +58%
- PPPARKSIDE PRESCHOOL CENTER LTD4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +32%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MERRILL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $61k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- HAHOUSEHOLD ABUSE VICTIMS EMERGENCY NETWORK INCone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +12%
- CICHILDCARING INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +30%
- HMHEALTHY MINDS FOR LINCOLN COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Housing Counseling Services
Community service - homeless shelter
Provide a home and the needs of children with no other place to go
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
To assist at-risk individuals
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need
Parent cooperative nursery school
Child care & preschool services
Provide temporary, secure housing to those in need
The haven's mission is to advocate for homeless men while providing community resources and an interfaith approach towards self-sufficiency.
Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childcaring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Three Rivers United Temporary Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL CABRINI CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds PARKSIDE PRESCHOOL CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MERRILL INC ↗
- Who funds MERRILL COMMUNITY HOMELESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MARSH HAVEN NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS UNITED TEMPORARY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds HOUSEHOLD ABUSE VICTIMS EMERGENCY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING 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.
Open a dossier: Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Marathon County 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 organization Merrill Area United Way 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.