· Private foundation
Ann a Mergens Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION | $145,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $40,000 |
| STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING | $30,000 |
| LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER | $25,000 |
| JUPITER HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA | $15,000 |
| BURLINGTON CITY ARTS | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +271% · 26% of their budget
SHELBURNE FARMS9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +257%- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +177%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to protect marine life in the gulf of maine through research, education and inspiring action. our most significant activities are studying marine life off the nh coast, conducting over 200 community beach cleanups each year,…
The mission of the boothbay sea and science center is the advancement of sailing, boating and ocean sciences by minimizing economic and physical obstacles and further to develop independence, self-confidence, teamwork and volunteerism in…
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
The mission emphasizes environmental education for children and adults. the children's education, largely for elementary schools is designed in conjunction with florida state standards and administered by volunteers and staff. the adult…
Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.
As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
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…
Echo's mission is to inspire and engage everyone in the joy of scientific discovery, wonder of nature, and care of lake champlain.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sea Turtle Adventures Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Creative Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Hills Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING ↗
- Who funds ANDREW RED HARRIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds SEA TURTLE ADVENTURES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization 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.
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Stern Center for Language and Learning — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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