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Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$99k
Granted FY2017
28
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION$8,000
AUGUSTA WARRIOR PROJECT$7,000
YOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTA$7,000
AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER$6,000
BROAD STREET MINISTRY$6,000
EASTER SEALS$6,000
COVENANT CARE SERVICES$6,000
AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK$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
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT CARE SERVICES: $6k → 23%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $6k → 18%FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA: $2k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

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3
Easter Seals East Georgia Inc

Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…

Human Services
4
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency Inc

To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.

Employment
5
Elevate Augusta Inc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with augusta youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Education
6
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
7
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
8
Hope Atlanta Inc

Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.

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9
Augusta Counseling Ministry

The purpose of Augusta Counseling Ministry is to provide professional counseling to hurting individuals helping them learn how to cope with past and current traumatic issues anxiety and depression faced in their personal lives.

Health
10
Augusta Christian Schools

Our mission is to provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. it is also to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards…

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11
Augusta Food Bank

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

Food & Nutrition
12
Adoption Authority Inc

Providing compassion, respect, and loving care to each individual on their unique adoption journey. We commit to honoring and nurturing expectant mothers through pregnancy, birth, and life after placement.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern Georgia Inc; 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION: $8,000 · OtherAUGUSTA RESCUE MISSIONFORCESUNITED INC: $7,000 · OtherFORCESUNITED INCYOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTA: $7,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTAAUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherAUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGETHE SALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHILDREN'S HEART PROGRAM: $4,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEART PROGRAMBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC: $3,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF AUGUSTA: $2,000 · OtherHERITAGE ACADEMY INC: $2,000 · OtherWALTON REHABILITATION CENTER: $2,000 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $5,500 · Other+6 moreEASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC: $6,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS SOUTHE…AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER: $6,000 · HealthAUGUSTA CARE PREGNA…CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC: $5,000 · HealthCHRIST COMMUNITY HE…BROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MIN…COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT CARE SE…FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE O…GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyAUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureRISE Augusta Inc: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$54,500Health$17,000Human Services$14,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Arts & Culture$2,000Youth Development$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 & Erne…The Community Foundat…Creel-Harison Foundat…The Knox FoundationGeorgia Power Foundat…United Way of the Csr…Tr Dorothy M Buttolph…University Health Ser…Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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