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Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $129,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs$30,000
A Healing Place$25,000
Walthour Moss Foundation$10,000
University of Notre Dame$10,000
NSCDA - Nat. Society Col Dames America$7,500
Paws 4 People$5,000
LUV$5,000
Coastal Land Trust$5,000
Brazil Foundation$5,000
Planned Parenthood of LA$5,000
Manna Food Bank$5,000
Philadelphia Art Museum$2,500
PUMA - Penn Univ Med Assoc$2,500
Historic Wilming Foundation$2,500
Cameron Art Museum$2,500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 3 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$54k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+116%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue -4%
  • PI
    PAWS4PEOPLE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue -22%
  • OH
    OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Healing Place of New Hanover County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +121%
  • TH
    THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +11%
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

03Its 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
The Winston-Salem Foundation

We foster meaningful connections and link resources to purposeful action, creating a brighter future for all who call Forsyth County home.

Philanthropy
2
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
3
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
4
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
5
Wilmington Hope House a Safe Place for Women and Children Llc

The Hope House Mission is to welcome as Christ welcomed women and accompanying children in need and to offer love, hope, and compassion within a Christian ethos to foster and facilitate the restoration of human dignity, self-respect, and…

Human Services
6
Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…

Science & Tech
7
Smithfield Preston Foundation

Preservation and interpretation of historic property

Arts & Culture
8
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
9
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
11
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc

Support organization

Health
12
The Partnership Project Inc

The Partnership Project is organized and operated exclusively to enhance protection of the natural environment by improving the effectiveness of environmental organizations. It currently has 17 groups participating, including the largest…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Healing Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southport Oak Island Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc: $45,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina IncTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE HEALING PLACE INCTHE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATIONMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 · OtherA Safe Place Inc: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $6,050 · Other+4 moreOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $5,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERIC…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CH…BRAZIL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · InternationalBRAZIL FOUND…LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC: $5,000 · InternationalLIFT UP THE …PENNSYLVANIA UNITED MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · InternationalPENNSYLVANIA…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 · EducationUniversity …West African Vocational Schools: $1,000 · EducationThe Healing Place of New Hanover County Inc: $14,000 · HealthThe Healin…Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $5,000 · HealthPlanned Pa…THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NATION…OPERA HOUSE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $3,150 · Arts & CultureOPERA HOUS…Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHistoric W…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPH…LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM: $2,500 · Arts & CultureLOUISE WEL…THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL LAND TRUST INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropySHANNONDELL AT VALLEY FORGE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropyPAWS4PEOPLE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesHospice of the Red River Valley: $1,650 · Human Services
Other$96,050International$22,500Education$21,000Health$19,000Arts & Culture$18,150Philanthropy$14,000Human Services$7,650

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 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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Foundati…North Carolina Commun…New Hanover Community…Dan Cameron Family Fo…American Endowment Fo…Duke Energy FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
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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Find your warmest path to Erwin Bellamy McMerty Foundation 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 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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