How much did ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION reported 28 grants totaling $98,500 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION based?

ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION is based in GA.

ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$99k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$8k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION$8,000
AUGUSTA WARRIOR PROJECT$7,000
YOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTA$7,000
BROAD STREET MINISTRY$6,000
AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER$6,000
COVENANT CARE SERVICES$6,000
EASTER SEALS$6,000
AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$5,000
GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$5,000
TUTTLE NEWTON HOME$4,000
CHILDREN'S HEART PROGRAM$4,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AUGUSTA$3,000
WALTON REHABILITATION CENTER$2,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 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 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.

Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of Augusta Health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health

Adventist Health System Georgia Inc

The provision of medical care to the community through the operation of two hospitals.

Health

Augusta University Foundation Inc

Establishing and administering endowment funds for the benefit of augusta university.

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Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of

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Augustana Care

To provide healthcare, housing and commmunity services for the elderly.

Unclassified

Augusta Food Bank

The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition

Health Services of Central Georgia Inc

The organization provides faculty physicians for the residency training programs of the medical center, navicent health (mcnh) and physicians who are in short supply in the community that are central to the mission of mcnh.

Health

Presbyterian Homes of Georgia Inc

Presbyterian homes of georgia provides support to other tax exempt entities.

Human Services

Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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Augusta Humane Society Inc

Provide shelter, food & medical care for stray or abandoned animals.

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Atlanta Birth Center Inc

To be a sanctuary that nurtures the lives of women and their families by providing a continuum of family-centered, holistic care surrounding the childbearing experience.

Health

Georgia Center for Child Advocacy Inc

The Georgia center for child advocacy's mission is to champion the needs of sexually and severely physically abused children through prevention, intervention, therapy, and collaboration.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Augusta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tuttle Newton Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

8/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$66,000Health$11,000Human Services$8,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,000Arts & Culture$2,000Education$500

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.

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.

Arthur H Merry & Ernest B MerryGA24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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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.

04Through 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: AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 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 +52% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 580971161 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 AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 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 2% 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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How do I get to Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation 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.

ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation?

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ARTHUR H & EARNEST B MERRY FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation?

More from the funding graph