· Private foundation
Merriman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS | $7,500 |
| CELEBRATION COMMUNITY CHURCH | $6,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MANNA SOUP KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| RISING TIDE CRISFIELD | $2,500 |
| HOOKER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY MINISTRY | $2,500 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS | $2,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SW COLORADO | $1,000 |
| FLC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COMPANEROS | $500 |
| JAMES L QUINT FOUNDATION | $250 |
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CFCOLORADO FAMILIES FOR HANDS AND VOICES5× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +14%
- MTMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN7× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +559%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PPPAUL'S PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Share Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soar. 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 24 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) — 4% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 51 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FAMILIES FOR HANDS AND VOICES ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HOOKER CTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HELP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COAL CREEK MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MINISTRY OF SW DENVER ↗
- Who funds KEEN GREATER DC LLC ↗
- Who funds CLC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE CRISFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds SARAMA ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Merry Christmas ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR ↗
- Who funds COLORADO VETERANS SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Trailhead Institute · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Merriman Family 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.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% 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.