· Private foundation
Ergon Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k93 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $5.2M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER | $615,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER | $500,000 |
| JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| JACKSON ACADEMY INC | $300,000 |
| GREAT CITY MS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $250,000 |
| JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Ergon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 40 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- JPJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +20%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +44%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +49% · 27% of their budget
- BCBELHAVEN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $150k
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +184%
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.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Empowered by the belief that all people have basic rights to dignity and compassion, our mission at mercy housing and human development is to recognize the need for sustainable, affordable housing for low-wealth families of south…
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Our mission remains to offer hope to adults by providing an effective continuum of high quality, valuable, and compassionate behavioral health treatment services.
To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.
The mission of mississippi baptist medical center, inc. is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology in a personal and compassionate environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered and the most unlike its peers is Hope House of Hospitality. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
193 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. 193 of the 272 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HARTFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE REDEEMERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREAT CITY MS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELTA STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON-RIDGELAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI PRISON CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Junius Ward Johnson MEMORIAL YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · The Pruet Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Phil Hardin 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 Ergon 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.
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 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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