· Private foundation
The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE ARTHUR & SARAH MERRILL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $6,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES | $5,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE RESEARCH) | $5,000 |
| RAYO DE SOL | $4,000 |
| EASTER SEALS CAROLINE SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA MISSION | $2,000 |
| HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FIRST CARE WOMEN'S CLINIC COBB PREGNANCY SERVICES | $1,500 |
| MARS-HILL PRODUCTIONS | $1,500 |
| RICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $1,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA YOUTH ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA COUNSELING CENTER -CLIENT ASSISTANCE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -46% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RDRAYO DE SOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +390%
- AUATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +21%
- CPCOBB PREGNANCY SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +84%
Funded once
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLEone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -46%- FOFOCUS ON THE FAMILYone grant, 2018 · $1k
- ESEmpty Stocking Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +172%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances
Christian psychological counseling
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
The mission of triangle pastoral counselingis to be a professional extension of the counseling ministriesof the faith communities of the triangle area
Simplifying ministry HR through education, expertise and specialized services so that churches can grow a healthy and thriving staff.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
Cornerstone Counseling empowers people to reach their spiritual, relational, and emotional potential through exceptional counseling and personal development services.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Restoration Atlanta exists to strengthen & equip under-resourced families to experience holistic restoration. We carry this out through providing ministry, childcare, and child development services to families experiencing homelessness and…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Rayo De Sol Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RAYO DE SOL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COBB PREGNANCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian School ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Empty Stocking Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AKOLA PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Arthur & Sarah Merrill Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.