Delaware · Private foundation
The Ergon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Ergon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 10 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $1.0M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $931k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $881k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $795k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $725k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $371k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $168k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention | $1,651,770 | 9 | n/a |
| Pillar Church Planting Network | $1,042,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Reaching and Teaching International Ministries Incorporated | $1,023,250 | 5 | 3% |
| Cross Vision Missions Inc | $632,000 | 9 | 31% |
| Manas Development Group | $595,000 | 4 | 31% |
| Capitol Hill Baptist Church | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Freedom Church Baltimore Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Poiema Publicaciones USA | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Be Love Orphan Outreach MissionsInc | $60,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Pca Mission to North America | $54,500 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention | $1,651,770 | 9 | n/a |
| Pillar Church Planting Network | $1,042,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Reaching and Teaching International Ministries Incorporated | $1,023,250 | 5 | 3% |
| Cross Vision Missions Inc | $632,000 | 9 | 31% |
| Manas Development Group | $595,000 | 4 | 31% |
| Capitol Hill Baptist Church | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Freedom Church Baltimore Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Poiema Publicaciones USA | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Be Love Orphan Outreach MissionsInc | $60,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Pca Mission to North America | $54,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Last Bell Ministries Inc | $48,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Footprints Abroad International Ministries Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 15% |
| St Andrew Baptist Church Inc | $25,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Interstate Baptist Association | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Park Baptist Church | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| LINC Up Missions Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($703k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ergon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Ergon Foundation
- How much does The Ergon Foundation give?
- The Ergon Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,334,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ergon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (84%), Community Improvement (12%), International (3%).
- Who are The Ergon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention ($1.7M), Pillar Church Planting Network ($1.0M), Reaching and Teaching International Ministries Incorporated ($1.0M).
- Does The Ergon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ergon 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 The Ergon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Ergon Foundation based?
- The Ergon Foundation is based in DE.
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