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Merrion Family 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k117 grants · $241k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| SAN JUAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SAN JUAN COUNTY LIFE SKILLS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOUR CORNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $21,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| CONVICTED BY CHRIST | $15,000 |
| NAVAJO UNITED METHODIST CENTER | $15,000 |
| SAN JUAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| NEW MEXICO FAMILY ACTION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LADIES CHARITY GOLF CLASSIC | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES GALLUP INC | $10,000 |
| GRACE PLACE FOR WOMEN INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 26 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- SJSAN JUAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $744k · revenue +48%
- TATibbetts All Ability Park Foundation Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue +45% · 78% of their budget
- SJSAN JUAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $339k · revenue +2% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NAVAJOLANDone grant, 2018 · $25k
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +54%
- DDREAMSPRINGone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.
Better is our mission, improving lives through personalized health and care
The casa program is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. the organization serves children in…
A regional Chamber committed to improving the quality of community life driven by business leadership mentorship advocacy and prosperity.
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
New mexico kids matter inc., serves as a court appointed special advocate to advocate for the best interest of abused, neglected and high-risk children.
Primary Rural Health Care
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Grants and expenses for programs serving the physical, mental, educational and social needs of children and their families.
Casa fortaleza provides advocacy, case management services, therapy, and outreach to victims/survivors of sexual violence.
New mexico ethics watch is dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life.
Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Plata Family Centers Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
154 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. 154 of the 222 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAN JUAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tibbetts All Ability Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN COUNTY LIFE SKILLS FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Arizona ↗
- Who funds REBOUND NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of San Juan County ↗
- Who funds FILM FOUR CORNERS ↗
- Who funds CONVICTED BY CHRIST ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER INCENTIVE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds IGW CHILDRENS HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NAVAJO UNITED METHODIST CENTER ↗
- Who funds Grace Place for Women Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOICE MINISTRIES INTL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY POLICY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR MOTHERS OF AMERICA INC NM1 ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES OF NWNM ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS 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: Westmeath Foundation · Thomas a and Mary E Dugan Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · San Juan United Way · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · Connie Gotsch Arts Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Team Up · Ballantine Family Fund · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Colorado Gives 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 Merrion 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 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.
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