Vermont · Private foundation
Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $145,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $320k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $265k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $245k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $265k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $315k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $245k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $270k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $375k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Like Jake Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 9 | 26% |
| Shelburne Farms | $325,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Center for Creative Education | $215,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Burlington YMCA Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $130,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Stern Center for Language and Learning | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Andrew Red Harris Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 14% |
| The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Like Jake Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 9 | 26% |
| Shelburne Farms | $325,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Center for Creative Education | $215,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | $215,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Burlington YMCA Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $130,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Stern Center for Language and Learning | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Andrew Red Harris Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 14% |
| The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| HowardCenter Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mater Christi School | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sea Turtle Adventures Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 5% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($345k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
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About Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc
- How much does Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc give?
- Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Live Like Jake Foundation Inc ($800k), Shelburne Farms ($325k), Center for Creative Education ($215k).
- Does Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc based?
- Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc is based in VT.
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