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Merritt Community Capital Corporation

To provide affordable housing for low income persons.

$952k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.0MEducation$928kCommunity Improvement$758kFood & Nutrition$27kHuman Services$6kHealth$6k
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $885,395 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $952,274 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,879 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $381k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $248k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LISC LA$250,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS$77,857
NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$60,000
HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC$60,000
CALIFORNIA HOUSING PARTNERSHIP CORPORATION$50,000
SAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION$45,000
CALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM$40,000
CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR RURAL HOUSING PROJECT$35,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC$30,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION$20,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$20,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $60k → 12%HOUSING CALIFORNIA INC: $58k → 12%HUMANGOOD FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%SEQUOIA LIVING: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 22 repeat orgs$453k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$372k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+36%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +25%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $267k · revenue +60%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $163k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • PH
    PEP Housing
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • EI
    EAH Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue -52%
  • EH
    EDEN HOUSING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
3
Burbank Housingsr Corporation

To own and operate affordable rental housing.

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4
California Apartment Association

The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…

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5
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
6
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
Cal Poly Humboldt Real Estate Holdings

To accept, hold, and manage certain real property on behalf of cal poly humboldt foundation and california state polytechnic university, humboldt.

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
11
Housing Trust Silicon Valley

Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.

Housing & Shelter
12
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humangood Affordable Housing and the most unlike its peers is Solano Affordable Housing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr12%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%49%35–55yr12%23%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
16,858/119,709

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $750,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPOR…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $45,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN…THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $267,170 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKEL…SAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION — $70,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATIONUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $38,231 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+14 more — $205,457 · Education+14 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS — $162,857 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION…California Housing Partner Corporation — $90,000 · OtherCalifornia Housing P…SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC — $60,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA …CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO — $50,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNI…CSULB — $40,000 · OtherCSULBREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $20,000 · Other+5 more — $34,800 · Other+5 moreNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $127,500 · Housing & ShelterNON-PROFIT HOUSIN…California Coalition for Rural Housing Project — $95,000 · Housing & ShelterCalifornia Coalit…CALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterCALIFORNIA HOUSIN…EAH Inc — $24,090 · Housing & ShelterEAH IncEDEN HOUSING INC — $21,030 · Housing & Shelter+9 more — $78,040 · Housing & Shelter+9 moreHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $117,563 · Human ServicesHUMANGOOD AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $16,260 · Human ServicesSEQUOIA LIVING INC — $6,480 · Human ServicesPEP Housing — $100,000 · ReligionFeeding America — $15,330 · Food & NutritionCORNUCOPIA SERVICES — $11,220 · Food & NutritionHEALING GROVE HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,760 · Health
Community Improvement$795,000Education$750,858Other$497,657Housing & Shelter$425,660Human Services$140,303Religion$100,000Food & Nutrition$26,550Health$5,760

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $267,170 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND LOCAL EQUITY FUNDS — $162,857 over 2y, 13% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $127,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHOUSING CALIFORNIA INC — $117,563 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPEP Housing — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Rural Housing Project — $95,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCalifornia Housing Partner Corporation — $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOUSING CONSORTIUM — $80,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO HOUSING FEDERATION — $70,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT HOUSING INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $38,231 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $24,419 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAH Inc — $24,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $21,038 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN HOUSING INC — $21,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANGOOD AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $16,260 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America — $15,330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA — $13,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNUCOPIA SERVICES — $11,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidwestern State University Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSV HOME — $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAY AREA COUNCIL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP — $7,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSORTIUM FOR HOUSING AND ASSET MANAGEMENT INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEQUOIA LIVING INC — $6,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHURCH HOMES — $6,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING WORKS — $6,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING CORPORATION OF AMERICA — $6,060 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Mufg Union Bank Found…Wells Fargo FoundationCalifornia Community …Neighborhood Reinvest…The James Irvine Foun…Public Health Institu…Crankstart FoundationEden Housing IncDesert Community Foun…Tipping Point Communi…Banc of California Ch…Sunlight Giving
Mufg Union Bank Foundation AgWI31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Wells Fargo Foundation · California Community Foundation · Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation · The James Irvine Foundation · Public Health Institute · Crankstart Foundation · Eden Housing Inc · Desert Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · Sunlight Giving

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 Merritt Community Capital Corporation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
  • The Housing Partnership Network Inc — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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