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The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2020
15
Grants FY2020
15
Organizations funded FY2020
7%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 22
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 7% of the organizations The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202015$35k7%
FY201915$45k7%
FY201822$54k32%
FY201716$47kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$60kReligion$53kHuman Services$19kEducation$19kInternational$17kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$4kCivil Rights$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$25,0004n/a
Rayo de Sol Inc$12,00041%
Atlanta Union Mission Corporation$9,00040%
Cobb Pregnancy Services Inc$8,50040%
Atlanta Counseling Center Inc$5,50031%
International Justice Mission$5,00030%
Presbyterian School$4,50040%
Richmont Graduate University$4,00040%
Historic Macon Foundation Inc$4,00020%
Jewish Family Service$3,00030%
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All grantees of The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$25,0004n/a
Rayo de Sol Inc$12,00041%
Atlanta Union Mission Corporation$9,00040%
Cobb Pregnancy Services Inc$8,50040%
Atlanta Counseling Center Inc$5,50031%
International Justice Mission$5,00030%
Presbyterian School$4,50040%
Richmont Graduate University$4,00040%
Historic Macon Foundation Inc$4,00020%
Jewish Family Service$3,00030%
Mars Hill Productions Inc$2,00020%
Augustine Literacy Project - Triangle$2,00011%
Focus on the Family$1,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Akola Project Inc$1,00010%
Empty Stocking Fund Inc$1,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRayo de Sol Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAtlanta Union Mission Corporation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCobb Pregnancy Services Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAtlanta Counseling Center Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian School: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRichmont Graduate University: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Macon Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family Service: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMars Hill Productions Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAugustine Literacy Project - Triangle: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAkola Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $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 13.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc

How much does The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc give?
The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (33%), Religion (29%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc ($25k), Rayo de Sol Inc ($12k), Atlanta Union Mission Corporation ($9k).
Does The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc based?
The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc is based in GA.

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 25 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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