How much did ERGON FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ERGON FOUNDATION INC’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

2019

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2020

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2021

educationendowmentrepairsmetrobusinessemergencycare

2022

preventionlearningfoodgoodministrieshopescience

2023

missionsexpansiondisaster reliefagainstboysstonechrist presbyterian

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

03FY2025 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $28k
$10k–50k90 grants · $2.0M
$50k–250k48 grants · $5.2M
$250k+10 grants · $3.5M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$249M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER$615,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER$500,000
JACKSON ACADEMY INC$300,000
JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$300,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$300,000
MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL$250,000
GREAT CITY MS FOUNDATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$250,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$250,000
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE$200,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$200,000
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY$200,000
ASPHALT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$200,000
JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION$200,000

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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% 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.

ERGON FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$47M · 110 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

110 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110

Total granted

$47M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+44%

Still filing today

65%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +213%
JP
JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +8%
BH
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
6× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +266% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

CC
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $500k
MP
MISSISSIPPI PRISON CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -83%
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPIgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $260k · revenue +72%

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.

Mississippi Methodist Hospital

Mississippi methodist rehabilitation center provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to help people recover abilities and quality of life after a stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neurological disease or…

Health

University of Southern Mississippi

The mission of the alumni association is to benefit the university of southern mississippi, its students, and alumni through upholding traditions, sponsoring activities, events, and publications.

Education

Methodist Foundation of Mississippi

The methodist foundation of ms resources the church for effective ministry & fruitful generosity.

Religion

Little Lighthouse Central Mississippi

To glorify god by improving the quality of life for children with special needs.

Education

Mercy Housing and Human Development

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…

Human Services

Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

To assist at-risk and disadvantaged youths in graduating from high school.

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Disability Rights Mississippi

To promote, protect, advocate and assist people with disabilities.

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Habitat for Humanity Mississippi

Building, selling and financing affordable housing for low-income families in the jackson, mississippi metropolitan area.

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Advance Memphis

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

Education

Mercy House Minstries

Work program for teen challenge candidates, temporary housing, evaluations, gospel witness

Health

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Inc

Mississippi baptist medical center, inc. maintains and carries on acute clinical services by offering a comprehensive range of services for patients.

Health

Millsaps College

Millsaps college is a private nonprofit liberal arts college based in jackson, ms; providing education and training services for students at the undergraduate and graduate level

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Food Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Union University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 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.

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%0/155

the rest of the field

13%

1,587/12,345

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.

06the grantee network

141 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)

140/141

Grantees still filing

110/141

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$28,934,250Education$11,765,000Health$5,501,000Human Services$2,972,750Housing & Shelter$1,945,000Arts & Culture$1,425,000Community Improvement$950,000

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.

Community Foundation for MississippiMS75.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Regions Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Telos Foundation Inc · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family

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 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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: STONE STORIES MINISTRIES INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821245487 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 STONE STORIES MINISTRIES INC, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 72% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ergon Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ergon Foundation Inc 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.

ERGON FOUNDATION INC

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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

141 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ergon Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

ERGON FOUNDATION INC

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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

141 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ergon Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph