· Private foundation
Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION | $8,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTA | $7,000 |
| AUGUSTA WARRIOR PROJECT | $7,000 |
| COVENANT CARE SERVICES | $6,000 |
| BROAD STREET MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER | $6,000 |
| EASTER SEALS | $6,000 |
| AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK | $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 |
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 (FY17–17, $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 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.
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.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
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…
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…
To empower financially vulnerable individuals in our community to become self-sufficient, sustainably employed, and economic contributors to society.
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with augusta youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
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.
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.
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.
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…
The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Southern Georgia 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.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FORCESUNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS SOUTHERN GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds TUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds RISE Augusta Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds Paine College ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.