How much did Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

scouts

2019

scouts

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

YOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTA$9,000
AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION$9,000
COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC$7,000
EASTER SEALS OF EAST GEORGIA$7,000
BROAD STREET MINISTRY$7,000
CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC$7,000
AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER$6,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AUGUSTA$6,000
GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK$5,000
AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE$5,000
APPARO ACADEMY$5,000
TUTTLE NEWTON HOME$4,000
HERITAGE ACADEMY$3,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA$3,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF GEORGIA$2,500

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 12%. 90% 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 edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$785k · 31 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$785k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+11%

Still filing today

58%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

AR
AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION
8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +52%
CC
COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +83%
CC
CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +208%

Funded once

KF
K9 FOR WARRIORS
one grant, 2024 · $2k
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF AUGUSTA
one grant, 2018 · $2k
AP
AUGUSTA PLAYERS
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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

Augusta University Foundation Inc

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

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Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Adventist Health System Georgia Inc

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

Health

Augusta Food Bank

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

Food & Nutrition

Augustana Care

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

Unclassified

Augusta Christian Schools

To provide academic and spiritual training and extracurricula activities for students in the csra. to prepare students to serve jesus christ as lord, partnering with family and church, instilling high standards spriritually, socially and…

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The Augusta Preparatory Day School Inc

The mission of the augusta preparatory day school is to provide families in the csra with the highest quality college-preparatory education for average and above-average students in an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational school.

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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

Atlanta Union Mission Corporation

Transforming, through christ, the lives of those facing homelessness.

Human Services

Georgia Appleseed Inc

The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to increase justice in Georgia through law and policy reform and community engagement.

Civil Rights

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

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.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

13%

1,255/9,462

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

22/22

Grantees still filing

18/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$497,250Health$108,000Human Services$86,000Food & Nutrition$41,000Philanthropy$35,500Arts & Culture$18,000Youth Development$11,000

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.

The Community Foundation for the CentralGA30.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Central · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Clinton-Anderson Hospital Inc · Children's Hospital Association · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · Ramachandra and Niranjini Reddy · United Way of the Csra Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 organisation Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through 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: TUTTLE NEWTON HOME.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 580566249 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 TUTTLE NEWTON HOME, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 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 3% 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 Merry & Ernest B Merry?

Find your warmest path to Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry 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 Merry & Ernest B Merry

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry?

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Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry?

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