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Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Messianic Refuge | $100,000 |
| Compassion International | $60,000 |
| BeLoved Ashville | $25,000 |
| Legacy Christian Academy | $20,000 |
| One Bistro | $15,000 |
| Women Helping Women | $15,000 |
| Four Paws for Ability | $15,000 |
| Cincinnati Challenge Ranch | $10,000 |
| May We Help | $10,000 |
| City Gospel Mission | $10,000 |
| BLOC Ministries | $10,000 |
| Matthew 25 Ministries | $10,000 |
| Cincinnati Museum Center | $10,000 |
| MOST | $10,000 |
| Israel Guide Dog Center | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- TMTHE MESSIANIC REFUGE3× · 2022–2024 · $210k · revenue +20% · 84% of their budget
Compassion International Incorporated3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +16%- M2Matthew 25 Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- FCFirst Church of Christ-East Palestineone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TSThe Soaring Hawks Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CUConcordia University of Edmontonone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
Metro relief seeks to mobilize, empower, restore, and satisfy the needs of the oppressed. it draws people toward christ as the ultimate provider of their needs, and guides them in transforming their own loves as well as thoise people…
Mission Without Borders (MWB) is dedicated to reaching people for Christ through an international network of Christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,…
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Grace haven ministries mission is to rescue, renew, restore and return women to family and community after being set free of addiction through the power of jesus christ.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Disciple and encourage women in following Jesus.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is May We Help Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sos Ministry Mission Field - Streets of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 THE MESSIANIC REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds XCS INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CHALLENGE RANCH ↗
- Who funds ONE BISTRO INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds PURPOSEFUL PAINTING INC ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD MIAMI MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SOS MINISTRY MISSION FIELD - STREETS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
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: John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Scripps Howard 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 Harry Maescher Ferguson Charitable Foundation 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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