· Private foundation
Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEPAUL USA | $6,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $6,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA | $4,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,500 |
| HAY HOUSE THE GA TRUST FOR HISTORIC | $2,500 |
| MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC | $2,500 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA | $2,000 |
| THE MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MACON OUTREACH AT MULBERRY | $1,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| WESLEY GLEN MINISTRIES INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustee for Samuel T Mercer Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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