Minnesota · Nonprofit
MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES
MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,214,639 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($2,972,116). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Merrick Community Services does
Mission
Merrick Community Services champions thriving communities by eliminating barriers and providing essential resources to promote stability, independence, economic and social justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employment & career services merrick's employment and career services program provides resources and skills to east side residents to pursue employment and career opportunities. Our programming provides under/unemployed adults and youth with access to skill training programs, job search assistance, and other supports. In addition to broad employment support, merrick offers training in human services and entrepreneur career pathways for 18-30-year-old ramsey county residents. Mcs provides youth with employment and career exploration programming through mpower, a merrick program that typically runs two or three cohorts annually with east side youth. Last year, mcs provided support to 178 adults and youth seeking employment and career services.
$872,177 spent22% of program spendingFamily & community services merrick's family & community services case managers utilize intervention and prevention resources, tools, information, and referrals to address and/or service the comprehensive and complex needs of the whole family. Merrick case management services are offered through a partnership with ramsey county human services -family & community partnership (fcp) / parent support outreach program (psop) & family emergency funds. Fcp/psop is designed to assist low-income families with basic needs and information regarding community resources. In 2024-25, mcs served 908 individuals and 227 families though this program. In addition, mcs served over 2,822 youth through seasonal programming (backpack giveaway and holiday toy share. Merrick also provides housing supports to families in need, specially focused on preventing homelessness and promoting longer-term housing stability. In this past year, we provided housing navigation support to 414 families and prevented evictions and subsequent homelessness to 184 of those families.
$1,684,268 spent$2,400 earned by the program42% of program spendingFood shelf providing a variety of high-quality foods and household supplies, merrick's food shelf offers east side of saint paul and maplewood residents nutritious foods through a client-choice model at our arcade food shelf, as well as additional distributions through school and faith-based sites throughout the year. Mcs served 16,640 individuals and distributed 890,000 pounds of food through our food shelves in 2024-25.
$506,150 spent13% of program spendingMeals on wheels the merrick meals on wheels program provides services that enable area seniors and other homebound individuals to remain independent and continue living in their own homes for as long as possible. This past year, mcs volunteers delivered 32,169 hot meals and served 265 homebound individuals with this program. East side employment xchange merrick is a leader (and fiscal sponsor) for the east side employment xchange, a collaborative of 14 partners serving east side communities with employment services and relationships to area employers. The xchange is focused on creating more equitable and numerous employment opportunities for residents of the east side of saint paul, serving as a single point of contact for employers to source talent and engage east side jobseekers with participant-centered and aspirational coaching. In fy 2024-25, the xchange provided counsel, support, or direction to individuals. Partnership for equitable and resilient communities (perc) in 2024-25, merrick continued to be the local backbone organization for the partnership for equitable and resilient communities (perc) cohort in saint paul. Mcs serves as the convener of a collaborative community…
$977,481 spent$275,575 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,040,076.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.9M to $4.1M (+42%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 18% · 2019 37% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 14% · 2023 19% · 2024 30% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Susan Bergmann
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $320k → $1.2M.
11 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 32% · 2019 67% · 2020 52% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES (Minnesota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,214,639 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($2,972,116). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $9,214,639 in grants to MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $2,972,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing