· Private foundation
American Society of Ephesus Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Artspace Lima | $10,000 |
| Lima Central Catholic HS | $10,000 |
| Our Lady of Ephesus | $4,000 |
| St Mary's of the Woods | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 49% of all-years giving ($755k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +197% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 40 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 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 MILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAKE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Society of Ephesus Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Society of Ephesus Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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