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Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$98k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$98k19%
FY202423$96k4%
FY202322$90k5%
FY202222$103k0%
FY202122$117k0%
FY202024$85k4%
FY201928$113k11%
FY201827$95kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$145kEmployment$114kYouth Development$112kEducation$112kHealth$108kHousing & Shelter$105kFood & Nutrition$41kArts & Culture$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($122k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugusta Rescue Mission: $71,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetBroad Street Ministry Center Inc: $58,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetEaster Seals East Georgia Inc: $56,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Augusta Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant Care Services Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAugusta Care Pregnancy Center: $53,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetGolden Harvest Food Bank Inc: $41,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta Inc: $38,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetForcesunited Inc: $35,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTuttle Newton Home Inc: $34,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetFamily Promise of Augusta Inc: $22,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSpecial Olympics Georgia Inc: $17,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRISE Augusta Inc: $17,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetApparo Academy Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAugusta Museum of History Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Independent College Association Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChosen for Life Ministries Inc: $9,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWalton Foundation for Independence Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGeorgia Tech Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAugusta Players Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPaine College: $1,000 over 2y, 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 25.

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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.

Creel-Harison Foundation IncGA36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

Find your warmest path to Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc

How much does Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc give?
Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $98,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Employment (14%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Augusta Rescue Mission ($71k), Broad Street Ministry Center Inc ($58k), Easter Seals East Georgia Inc ($56k).
Does Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Creel-Harison Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc, Arthur H & Earnest B Merry Foundation.
Where is Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc based?
Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc 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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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