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Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$99k
Granted FY2017
28
Grants FY2017
28
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$8,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Augusta Rescue Mission$8,00012%
Forcesunited Inc$7,00011%
Broad Street Ministry Center Inc$6,00013%
Easter Seals Southern Georgia Inc$6,00010%
Augusta Care Pregnancy Center$6,00011%
Covenant Care Services Inc$6,00011%
Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Christ Community Health Services Augusta Inc$5,00010%
The Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Tuttle Newton Home Inc$4,00011%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc$3,00010%
Augusta Museum of History Inc$2,00010%
Heritage Academy Inc$2,0001n/a
RISE Augusta Inc$2,00011%
Special Olympics Georgia Inc$2,0001n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology$2,0001n/a
Family Promise of Augusta Inc$2,0001n/a
Paine College$50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugusta Rescue Mission: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetForcesunited Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBroad Street Ministry Center Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEaster Seals Southern Georgia Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAugusta Care Pregnancy Center: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCovenant Care Services Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGolden Harvest Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Augusta Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTuttle Newton Home Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAugusta Museum of History Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRISE Augusta Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPaine College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation IncGA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · University Health Services Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation

How much does Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation give?
Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $98,500 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (20%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Augusta Rescue Mission ($8k), Forcesunited Inc ($7k), Broad Street Ministry Center Inc ($6k).
Does Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc, Creel-Harison Foundation Inc.
Where is Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation based?
Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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