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Merrill Area United Way Inc

Disburse funds to other nonprofit organizations

$229k
Granted FY2020
14
Itemized grants FY2020
14
Organizations funded FY2020
21%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$211k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$26,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 14
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$600k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 21% of the organizations Merrill Area United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202014$211k21%
FY201911$153k0%
FY201811$149k18%
FY201710$119kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$152kEducation$105kHousing & Shelter$77kFood & Nutrition$61kHealth$60kCommunity Improvement$55kYouth Development$44kEnvironment$41kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Merrill Area United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint Vincent Depaul Cabrini Conference: $84,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetParkside Preschool Center Ltd: $65,200 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMerrill Community Homeless Center Inc: $56,500 over 3y, 26% of budgetNorth Central Community Action Program Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPeaceful Solutions Counseling Inc: $54,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc: $44,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMarsh Haven Nature Center Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetChildren's Service Society of Wisconsin: $39,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Marathon County Inc: $38,130 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHousehold Abuse Victims Emergency Network Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetChildcaring Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation IncWI25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Merrill Area United Way Inc

How much does Merrill Area United Way Inc give?
Merrill Area United Way Inc reported 14 itemized grants totaling $210,914, out of $229,089 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Merrill Area United Way Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Education (17%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Merrill Area United Way Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Saint Vincent Depaul Cabrini Conference ($84k), Parkside Preschool Center Ltd ($65k), Community Food Pantry of Merrill Inc ($61k).
Does Merrill Area United Way Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Merrill Area United Way Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc, Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation.
Where is Merrill Area United Way Inc based?
Merrill Area United Way Inc is based in WI.

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 15 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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