· Private foundation
Merrill Schneider Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $10,000 |
| Charitable Partnership Fund | $10,000 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Force | $10,000 |
| The Jewish Agency for Israel | $10,000 |
| American Friends of Magen David Ado | $10,000 |
| Old Friends Inc | $10,000 |
| Comm Foundation of Teton County | $8,000 |
| New Avenues for Youth | $7,500 |
| Teleosis Foundation | $6,000 |
| United Help Ukraine Inc | $6,000 |
| Hope for Ukraine Inc | $6,000 |
| Chabad of Northeast Portland | $5,000 |
| American Friends Latet Humanitarian | $5,000 |
| Holt International Children s Servi | $5,000 |
| Partners in Health | $3,750 |
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 (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
57 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +33%
- OFOld Friends Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +40%
- PPARSA6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- FWFreedom Within Projectone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PAPINK AID INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +131%
- RJROBISON JEWISH HOMEone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -80%
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.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach
Rpi's mission is to partner with local non-gov organizations and others to strengthen protection and self-reliance among refugees and internally displaced persons near conflict zones.
Our mission is to bridge the world of business and the world of people in extreme poverty, and to support vulnerable communities with health, education and other essential services
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Furever Feline Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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. 51 of the 75 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 CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds PARSA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBUS RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDIC MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TELEOSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds INMED PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
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: Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Oregon Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Portland · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Schneider 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.