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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.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
158
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$615k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$23MHealth$19MHuman Services$8.2MReligion$4.1MArts & Culture$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.7MEmployment$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 158 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k93 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k49 grants · $5.2M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.5M
$25,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$211M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CLEVELAND CLINIC$250,000
MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL$250,000
GREAT CITY MS FOUNDATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$250,000
THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION$200,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$200,000
THE REDEEMER'S SCHOOL$200,000
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE$200,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEROES AND HORSES: $25k → 10%OUTREACHED ARMS: $15k → 9%THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%RENEWAL RANCH: $25k → 15%HEART GALLERY OF TAMPA: $20k → 13%TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 10%EXCHANGE CLUB CARL PERKINS CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE: $20k → 17%CROSS EYED MISSIONS: $25k → 13%YOUNGSTOWN BLUECOATS ORG: $15k → 16%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 10%BEREAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 21%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $15k → 24%STONE STORIES MINISTRIES INC: $73k → 14%PHILADELPHIA TRANSIT: $10k → 23%ASA NOW: $20k → 11%BROOKE HANCOCK FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $15k → 12%PETAL CHILDREN'S TASK FORCE: $15k → 22%LIGHTHOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $15k → 22%THE FIELDHOUSE INC: $15k → 22%RIVER CITY RESCHUE MISSION: $25k → 20%THE GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 20%CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $30k → 10%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $300k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 24%CROSSROADS OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $15k → 11%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $25k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $25k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 11%SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $25k → 11%HOSPICE MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 11%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 23%SHANNON'S HOME OF HOPE: $25k → 10%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $75k → 23%GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 23%NEW WAY MISSISSIPPI: $10k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $75k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $75k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $75k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $25k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $25k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $25k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $25k → 23%WINGARD HOME INC: $20k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $25k → 23%SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC: $13k → 23%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $15k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Ergon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ergon Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61M · 121 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
108

Total granted

$61M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JP
    JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +20%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +44%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +49% · 27% of their budget
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +184%
  • BC
    BELHAVEN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion
2
Mercy Housing & 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
3
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

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.

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4
Mississippi Methodist Hospital Rehabilitation Center Inc

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…

Health
5
Mississippi Methodist Senior Services Inc

Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.

Human Services
6
Memphis Recovery Centers Inc

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,…

Health
7
Working Together Mississippi

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…

Education
8
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
9
Mission Clinical Services

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

Health
10
Harbor House of Jackson Inc

Our mission remains to offer hope to adults by providing an effective continuum of high quality, valuable, and compassionate behavioral health treatment services.

Health
11
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
12
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered; 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.
05the grantee network

193 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
190/193
Grantees still filing
103/193
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MSU FOUNDATION: $3,060,000 · OtherMSU FOUNDATIONJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,515,000 · OtherJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCTHE SALVATION ARMY - JACKSON: $2,125,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - JACKSONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,800,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCHARTFIELD ACADEMY INC: $1,690,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY (DBA CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS): $1,437,500 · OtherSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,265,000 · OtherCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC: $1,180,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,125,000 · Other+96 more: $14,711,250 · Other+96 moreUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $2,194,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FO…THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · EducationTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATI…JACKSON ACADEMY INC: $1,995,000 · EducationJACKSON ACADEMY INCFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $1,700,000 · EducationFRENCH CAMP ACADEMYHARBOR DAY SCHOOL: $1,545,000 · EducationHARBOR DAY SCHOOLJACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $1,435,000 · EducationJACKSON HEART FOUNDATIONTHE REDEEMERS SCHOOL: $1,177,500 · EducationTHE REDEEMERS SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $1,018,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSI…MADISON-RIDGELAND ACADEMY: $930,000 · EducationMADISON-RIDGELAND ACADEMYMississippi College: $925,000 · EducationMississippi College+14 more: $1,940,000 · Education+14 moreBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,800,000 · HealthBAPTIST HE…MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $1,530,000 · HealthMAGNOLIA S…American Heart Association Inc: $875,000 · HealthAmerican H…MISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC: $470,000 · HealthMISSISSIPP…FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $225,000 · HealthTHE MCCOY HOUSE EXTENDED CARE FOR WOMEN: $216,000 · Health+15 more: $1,035,000 · Health+15 moreGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $875,000 · Human ServicesPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $495,000 · Human ServicesMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC: $362,500 · Human ServicesSTONE STORIES MINISTRIES INC: $357,750 · Human ServicesMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $350,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Human Services+15 more: $517,500 · Human ServicesMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,400,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $525,000 · Arts & CultureMS MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNOLIA TRIBUNE INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDELTA STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $990,000 · ReligionMISSISSIPPI PRISON CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $275,000 · ReligionLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $215,000 · ReligionPIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $138,500 · Religion+6 more: $142,500 · ReligionSt Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc: $1,800,000 · Housing & Shelter+8 more: $215,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$33,408,750Education$16,859,500Health$6,151,000Human Services$3,637,750Arts & Culture$2,310,000Religion$2,291,000Housing & Shelter$2,015,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,515,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $2,194,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 9y, 40% of budgetJACKSON ACADEMY INC: $1,995,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,800,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetSt Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc: $1,800,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $1,700,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetHARTFIELD ACADEMY INC: $1,690,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetHARBOR DAY SCHOOL: $1,545,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $1,530,000 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetJACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $1,435,000 over 8y, 69% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,400,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,265,000 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetTHE REDEEMERS SCHOOL: $1,177,500 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetGREAT CITY MS FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $1,018,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDELTA STREETS MINISTRIES INC: $990,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetMADISON-RIDGELAND ACADEMY: $930,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetMississippi College: $925,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $875,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC: $875,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetASPHALT INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetMISSISSIPPI PRISON CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $525,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $510,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJunius Ward Johnson MEMORIAL YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $495,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBelhaven University: $475,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC: $470,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES INC: $375,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI'S TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC: $362,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSTONE STORIES MINISTRIES INC: $357,750 over 4y, 72% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Inc: $345,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $338,250 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetPEARL RIVER VISION FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetTHE SKILLS FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI INC: $300,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI INC: $270,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetPiney Woods School: $260,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $250,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $225,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $225,000 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetBUT GOD MINISTRIES: $220,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE MCCOY HOUSE EXTENDED CARE FOR WOMEN: $216,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $215,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Van Devender Family F…Feild Co-Operative As…Walker FoundationSelby and Richard McR…Sam E & Burnice C Wit…Century Club Charitie…The Pruet FoundationPinebelt FoundationMississippi Power Fou…Mississippi Food Netw…Phil Hardin Foundation
Community Foundation for MississippiMS112.2× affinity57 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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ergon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ergon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ergon Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ergon 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.

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 272 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home