· Private foundation
Richard D and Lynette S Merillat Non-Profit Corporation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $250k+1 grant · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LENAWEE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $440,000 |
| JONI & FRIENDS | $30,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CARE PREGNANCY CENTER OF LENAWEE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA | $5,000 |
| REMEDY LIVE | $5,000 |
| THE DION FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +59% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- LCLENAWEE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +45%
- HUHuntington University3× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +37%
- JAJONI AND FRIENDS8× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2019 · $100k
- CFCEO FORUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +258%
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +17%
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.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Simpson university is a christ-centered learning community committed to developing each student in mind, faith, and character for a life-time of meaningful work and service in a constantly changing world.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The mission of worship 24/7 is to ignite a passion for god through worship that results in a life of generosity, discipleship, evangelism, generosity and service.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Living Water Works Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 LENAWEE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Huntington University ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Schools ↗
- Who funds SEACREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN 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: Premier Bank Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richard D and Lynette S Merillat Non-Profit 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 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.
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