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· Private foundation
ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$345k
Granted FY2025
10
Grants
2
Communities
$145k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Human Services$865kEnvironment$290kArts & Culture$190kEducation$155kPhilanthropy$105kHealth$85kAnimals$85kOther$630k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
generaloperatingsupportthecapitalcampaign
2020
generaloperatingsupportthecapitalcampaign
2021
operatingsupportcapitalcampaignyouthprograms
2022
operatingsupportcapitalcampaign
2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION$145,000
- SHELBURNE FARMS$40,000
- STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING$30,000
- JUPITER HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
- LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER$25,000
- CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION$20,000
- BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY$15,000
- GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA$15,000
- BURLINGTON CITY ARTS$15,000
- CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE$15,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 15 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
3
Total granted
$2.3M
$75k
Still filing today
67%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
- LLLive Like Jake Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $745k · revenue +224% · 26% of their budget
Shelburne Farms8× · 2018–2025 · $290k · revenue +257%- CFCenter for Creative Education8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- VRVNA Respite Houseone grant, 2018 · $25k
- MCMater Christi Schoolone grant, 2018 · $25k
- RMRonald McDonald Houseone grant, 2018 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Waterfront Education
Educational experiences focused on the marine environment and conservation. our programs and events utilize our local ocean waters as a natural learning platform.
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Sanibel Sea School Inc
Improve the ocean's future, one person at a time, in order to live in a world where all people value, understand, and care for the ocean.
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3
Ocean Studies Charter School Inc
The mission of ocean studies charter school is to offer a quality public education based on the best practices in accelerated learning and reflecting the diversity of the children of monroe county. ocean studies charter school will offer a…
Education
4
Juniper Hill School for Place
Juniper hill school for place-based education connects children to themselves, to each other, and to their communities through studying both natural and human environments. utilitizing integrated, acedemic and social curriculum, and…
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5
Brukner Nature Center
Promoting the appreciation and understanding of wildlife conservation through preservation, education, and rehabilitation.
Environment
6
Coral Springs Nature Center &
To educate the public about the s. fla environment & the many species it contains & to provide excellent care for sick, injured or orphaned native wildlife. the snc offers camp & education programs to the community.
Environment
7
Reef Environmental Education
Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…
Recreation & Sports
8
Children's Learning Center At
To honor the imaginative spark within each child and celebrate learning through play, the arts, and hands-on exploration. the center nurtures children's curiosity, creativity, and fascination with the natural world. together, the center's…
Human Services
9
Charlotte Harbor Environmental
The organization's primary purpose is to develop, operate and maintain an environmental center for educational, scientific and recreational activities in charlotte county, florida. they also oversee the management of certain designated…
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10
Wild Compass Environmental Education
PEBC or Wild Compass is an enviromental learning center providing educational programs thorugh southwest Minnesota. The primary focus of the PEBCs (Wild Compass) programming is through field trips with area schools.
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11
Healthy Aquatics Marine Institute
The purpose of the healthy aquatics marine institute of florida inc. is to function as a source for education, aquaculture, and research using aquariums to promote ocean conservation. the organization offers educational programs in-house…
Environment
12
Boothbay Sea and Science Center
Boothbay sea and science center's mission is the advancement of sailing, boating and ocean sciences and to further develop independence, self- confidence, teamwork and volunteerism.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sea Turtle Adventures Inc and the most unlike its peers is Champlain College Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$865,000Other$630,000Environment$290,000Arts & Culture$190,000Education$155,000Philanthropy$105,000Health$85,000Animals$85,000
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 Live Like Jake Foundation ↗
- Who funds Shelburne Farms ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Education ↗
- Who funds Greater Burlington YMCA ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Hills Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Champlain College ↗
- Who funds STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Busch Wildlife Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Andrew Red Harris Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Adventures ↗
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.
Community Foundation for Palm Beach AndFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach And · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation ANN A MERGENS FOUNDATION INC 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- The Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Stern Center for Language and — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Live Like Jake Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 471163422 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Live Like Jake Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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