Connecticut · Nonprofit
MERRY GO ROUND INC
MERRY GO ROUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Overhills Foundation ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MERRY GO ROUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inclocal
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio match
- Stamford Rotary Trust Fundlocal
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.
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of MERRY GO ROUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.
From the IRS filings of MERRY GO ROUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
MERRY GO ROUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
MERRY GO ROUND INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education InclocalCT · funds 67 organizations near you
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stamford Rotary Trust FundlocalCT · funds 69 organizations near you
- Good Shepherd Fdn of Ohioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meals on Wheels Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cicoa Aging & In-Home Solutions Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Illinois Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lillian R Wardman Irr Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leadingage Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Health Care Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends Foundation for the Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MERRY GO ROUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $168k on record.
- CT$167k
- OK$2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MERRY GO ROUND INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 MERRY GO ROUND INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERRY GO ROUND INC?
- MERRY GO ROUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Overhills Foundation ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERRY GO ROUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to MERRY GO ROUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERRY GO ROUND INC?
- Overhills Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERRY GO ROUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing