Vermont · Private foundation
George W Mergens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,130
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations George W Mergens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 93 | $1.0M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $701k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $746k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $837k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $929k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $713k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $636k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $1.1M | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Memorial High School | $455,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc | $339,402 | 8 | 2% |
| Greater Burlington YMCA Inc | $197,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Spectrum Youth and Family Services Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Literacy Foundation | $105,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pure Water for the World Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| King Street Center Inc | $98,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Vermont Historical Society | $81,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George W Mergens Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About George W Mergens Foundation
- How much does George W Mergens Foundation give?
- George W Mergens Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $1,000,230 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George W Mergens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are George W Mergens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rice Memorial High School ($455k), Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc ($339k), Greater Burlington YMCA Inc ($198k).
- Does George W Mergens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George W Mergens Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George W Mergens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, The Windham Foundation Inc.
- Where is George W Mergens Foundation based?
- George W Mergens Foundation is based in VT.
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