Mercury One Inc
Irving, TX · EIN 45-3929881. Reported 107 grants totalling $43.3M to 72 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mercury One Inc, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q33) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 72 distinct organizations, with 62% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $70,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $200,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $22.1M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Nazarene Fund LLC | Anaheim, CA | $26.9M | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Shai Fund Inc | Murfreesboro, TN | $1,878,800 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Orphan Secure | Lewisville, TX | $1,565,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Bbq Relief | Peculiar, MO | $1,387,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Stonier Scholarship Inc | Towson, MD | $1,218,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Blessing International Relief & Development Corp | Virginia Bch, VA | $932,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Build Up Foundation Inc | Suwanne, GA | $831,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Servant Foundation | Overland Park, KS | $683,864 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Team Rubicon | Los Angeles, CA | $675,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mighty Oaks Foundation | Montgomery, TX | $554,974 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Somebody Cares America Inc | Houston, TX | $530,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Created Institute Inc | Ridgecrest, NC | $478,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | New York, NY | $463,594 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| We Must Protect | Ewa Beach, HI | $450,419 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Harvest Christian Fellowship | Riverside, CA | $370,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Information Technology Disaster Resource Center Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $365,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Freedom Shield Foundation | Lewisville, TX | $359,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jack Brewer Foundation | Plantation, FL | $325,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jaco Booyens Ministries | Arlington, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jase Response | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $242,350 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Trinity Baptist Church | Asheville, NC | $219,183 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hayovel Inc | Patterson, MO | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gateway Church | Southlake, TX | $180,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stone Ridge Foundation | Altavista, VA | $165,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Minutemen Disaster Response Foundation | Mckinney, TX | $158,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Archangel Project | South Darmouth, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Convoy of Hope | Springfield, MO | $134,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Deliverfund | Whitefish, MT | $118,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Life Santa | Draper, UT | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Save Our Allies | Cedar Park, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tufenkian Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Texas Panhandle Livestock and Agricultural Relief Fund | Dallas, TX | $97,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Vomo Gives Inc | Plano, TX | $90,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Life Center | Kahului, HI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shiloh Israel Childrens Fund Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Savage Freedoms Relief Operations Inc | Fairview, NC | $58,892 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| White Mountain Research | Herndon, VA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks | Newbury Park, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Million Voices Inc | Keller, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Our Republic | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sharetogether Org | Arlington, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dallas Film Society Inc | Dallas, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Blessing Projects | Moran, WY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| With God All Things Are Possible | Colorado Spgs, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Weston | Weston, ID | $25,068 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Franklin County Library Foundation | Winchester, TN | $25,068 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Side School District 202 Education Foundations Incorporated | Dayton, ID | $25,068 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation | Houston, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools | Wilkesboro, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| New Living Israel Inc | Stephenville, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Air Mobile Ministries | Sneedville, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blessing Project Inc | Swannanoa, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Lighthouse Foundation Inc | Galveston, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Irving, TX | $17,807 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council for National Policy | Washington, DC | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartland Fellowship Inc | Elizabethon, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Irving Family Advocacy Center Inc | Irving, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Catholic Pro-Life Community Inc | Dallas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wallbuilder Presentations | Aledo, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Institute for Ancient and Threatened Christianity | Shelburne, VT | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sidney & Helen Correll Ministries Inc | Charlotte, NC | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| S M Wright Foundation | Farmers Brnch, TX | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | Owasso, OK | $10,020 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Feronia Forward Ltd | Pittsfield, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Irving - Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce | Irving, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hardwired Incorporated | N Chesterfld, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| King for America Inc Non Profit Fai Th Based & Community Agencies | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| A Soldiers Child Inc | Murfreesboro, TN | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connect Effect LLC | Sherman Oaks, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Willow Bend Hunt Club Inc | Gainesville, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Continuing Evangelical Episcopal Communion Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
16 of 72 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Nazarene Fund LLC
HOUSING FOOD & OTHER SUPPORT - Build Up Foundation Inc
HUMANITARIAN AID - SUPPORT PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS IN SOUTH KOREAN - Shai Fund Inc
HUMANITARIAN AID - AID FAMILIES IN MIDDLE EAST FOOD AND GAZA RECONSTRUCTION - Excel College Dba Created Institute Inc
HDR - REBUILD NC COMMUNITY AFTER HURRICANE HELENE - We Must Project
HDR - GRANTS TO AID COMMUNITY REBUILD - Operation Bbq Relief
HDR - SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITIES AFTER DISASTERS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 53 of 72 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $26.2M | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $5,880,577 | $180,000 |
| 2023 | 30 | $4,935,450 | $61,500 |
| 2024 | 10 | $867,864 | $87,500 |
| 2025 | 29 | $5,432,734 | $100,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
65% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $70,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mercury One Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 140489, Irving, TX, 75014.
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