· Private foundation
Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $6,000 |
| DEPAUL USA | $6,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA | $4,500 |
| HAY HOUSE THE GA TRUST FOR HISTORIC | $2,500 |
| MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC | $2,500 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY | $1,000 |
| MACON OUTREACH AT MULBERRY | $1,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES INC | $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 (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +75% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- GSGirl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +22%
- MVMACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +96%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 96 CENTRAL GA COUNCIL5× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +251%
- GTGEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +14%
- TCTWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -5%
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.
Rearing at-risk children including education beyond high school.
To support senior independence through meals, shelter, education, and community.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Volunteer community service
To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.
Improve low-income housing by performing repairs and maintenance
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
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The statewide association of not-for-profit and other mission-driven organizations dedicated to providing quality housing, health care, community based and other related services for older Georgians. The mission of the association is to…
The Foundations purpose is for Methodist outreach to students at the University of Georgia even those who do not identify as Methodist. The Foundation operates a student center and carries out its primary activities: weekly services of…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission of Middle Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 96 CENTRAL GA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Wesley Glen Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves And Fishes Ministry ↗
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Perkins-Ponder Foundation · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · John S and James L Knight Foundation · United Way of Central Georgia Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · The Ra Bowen Trust
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 Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn 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.
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