· Private foundation
American Society of Ephesus Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sorelle Di Maria E Dell'Apostolo Gi | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Lima Central Catholic HS | $10,000 |
| Artspace Lima | $10,000 |
| Our Lady of Ephesus | $4,000 |
| St Mary's of the Woods | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
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 US giving — 51% of grant dollars ($778k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 49% that went abroad ($755k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your 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.
Beyond the US — 49% of all-years giving ($755k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +197% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- LCLIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $223k
- AAAUSTRIAN ARCHAELOGICAL INSTITUTE2× · 2019–2020 · $129k
- LCLIMA CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS4× · 2021–2025 · $100k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $150k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF IZMIR (SMIRNE)one grant, 2022 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
The mission of the missionary image of our lady of guadalupe is to promote reverence of life, the end of the culture of death; the establishment of a culture of life and civilization of love and the triumph of the immaculate heart of mary.…
Invite all people to know, live and share jesus christ.
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
To preserve the architectual integrity of the structure and the significance of the miles city academy building as it relates to eastern montana's history
In response to being loved by god and redeemed by jesus christ, and in faithfulness to its biblical and confessional heritage, saint paul's evangelical lutheran church shares the light of jesus christ through the word and sacrements;…
The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.
Parish based evangelization ministries
Mission work
Research in archetypal symbolism
Preservation of historical building which is part of the rich heritage of catholic roots in this part of keokuk county, iowa
Religious
Marriage encounter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian Lake Area Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Milford Schools Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 40 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 OUR LADY OF EPHESUS HOUSE OF PRAYER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LOGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Artspace Lima ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 American Society of Ephesus 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.
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