· Private foundation
Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION | $9,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF AUGUSTA | $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 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA | $3,000 |
| HERITAGE ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF GEORGIA | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ARAUGUSTA RESCUE MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +37%
- BSBROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +36%
- CCCHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF AUGUSTAone grant, 2018 · $2k
- APAUGUSTA PLAYERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +48%
- SMSUPREME MCS RULE CREATIVE EXPRESSIONone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
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…
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.
Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with augusta youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
To raise private support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and others to further the interests of augusta university. other purposes of the foundation are to establish and maintain endowments and provide the administration for…
To level the playing field for refugee and new american students by empowwering them.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
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 preparatory day school, inc. provides educational services to students in grades pre-k through 12.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gamechangers 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 44 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 38 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 BROAD STREET MINISTRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals East Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CARE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds FORCESUNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TUTTLE NEWTON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds RISE Augusta Inc ↗
- Who funds APPARO ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA MUSEUM OF HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA INDEPENDENT COLLEGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WALTON FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA JEWISH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Paine College ↗
- Who funds GAMECHANGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
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: Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation · The Knox Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · United Way of the Csra Inc · Erramuzpe Foundation Inc · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · University Health Services Inc · Storey Foundation Inc · Richards Family Foundation
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 Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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