· Private foundation
The Royalty Trust Janet Merritt Andrea Merritt Greg Merritt
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Vorhees Animal Orphanage | $6,000 |
| The River School | $5,000 |
| Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge | $5,000 |
| Hobe Sound Community Chest | $4,000 |
| Food Bank of South Jersey | $4,000 |
| Deborah Heart and Lung Foundation | $4,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Martin County | $4,000 |
| United Way of Martin County | $4,000 |
| Bike Walk Indian River County | $3,000 |
| Hobe Sound Nature Center | $3,000 |
| Philabundance | $3,000 |
| IMPACT 100 IRC | $3,000 |
| Medford Arts Center | $3,000 |
| Jupiter Medical Center Foundation | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your 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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- VAVoorhees Animal Orphanage Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +64%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +511%
FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- KCKIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -24%
- VHVIRTUA HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FUFirst Unitarian Universalist Societyone grant, 2019 · $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 inspire environmental stewardship of florida's coastal ecosystems through education, research and advocacy.
The mission of jupiter medical center is to deliver excellent and compassionate healthcare advancing the well-being of the people we serve, regardless of their ability to pay. certain services are provided at a loss or at no payment…
The clinic for the rehabilitation of wildlife is a teaching hospital and visitor center dedicated to the saving of wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education, and conservation medicine.
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
Providing sanctuary and a forever home since 1984.through education, research and rescue, dolphin research center promotes peaceful coexistence, cooperation and communication between marine mammals, humans and the environment we share with…
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…
The mission of the marine resources council (mrc) is to maintain and enhance the quality of marine systems for the economic, recreational, aesthetic, and environmental use for the people of florida
The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deborah Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. 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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 Voorhees Animal Orphanage Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Coastal Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds BIKE WALK INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OCEAN COUNTY CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds The River School ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MEDFORD ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Royalty Trust Janet Merritt Andrea Merritt Greg Merritt 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.
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 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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