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Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$205k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$129k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$908kYouth Development$45kRecreation & Sports$30kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$21kArts & Culture$18kAnimals$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Healing Place Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Healing Place of New Hanover County Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Walthour - Moss Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hadassah Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPaws4people Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Land Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBrazil Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLift Up the Vulnerable Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Safe Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpera House Theatre Company Inc: $3,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHistoric Wilmington Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhiladelphia Museum of Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouise Wells Cameron Art Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Red River Valley: $1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShannondell at Valley Forge Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSouthport Oak Island Animal Rescue: $1,350 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRotary Club of Downtown Wilmington Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWest African Vocational Schools: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 24.

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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.

The Landfall Foundation IncNC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Landfall Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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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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 Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation

How much does Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation give?
Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $129,000, out of $205,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Youth Development (3%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ($45k), The Healing Place Inc ($25k), The Healing Place of New Hanover County Inc ($14k).
Does Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Landfall Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, New Hanover Community Endowment Inc.
Where is Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation based?
Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation is based in NC.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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