· Private foundation
John & Orlena Marsh Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $5,000 |
| PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $4,273 |
| OHIO GUIDESTONE | $2,500 |
| OHIO DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $2,500 |
| BENEATH THE SHADE | $2,500 |
| TUSCARAWAS CO CHURCH & COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| TUSCARAWAS COUNTY LITERACY COALITION | $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 (FY18–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +29%- TPTUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%
- TCTUSCARAWAS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- RIRTY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BCBUCKEYE CAREER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TLTHE LOVING HEART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +6%
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 united way of tuscarawascounty inc is to invest in local programs and services thateffectively improve the lives of tuscarawas county residents.
Providing food assistance
To provide opportunities to individualsover 50 years of age in tuscarawas county, ohiothrough healthy living, independence, physical andmental health, education, and recreational programs
Backpacks for the street provides basic nutritional and hygeine goods directly to homeless individuals. additionally, each person is offered information about other services.
Food for the elderly and needy
The buckeye trail association builds, maintains, preserves, and promotes the use of the 1400 + mile buckeye trail, ohio's longest hiking trail, for our citizens, communities and partners. since 1959, we have provided outdoor recreation,…
The topeka rescue mission is dedicated to helping the homeless and hungry by providing emergency shelter to approximately 2,000 men, women and children and serving over 400,000 meals annually. trm provides a christian social service…
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
To provide food assistance and support services to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity in Butler County Ohio.
The mission of Temporary Shelter, Inc. is to operate an emergency homeless shelter within the City of Tustin, California.
The mission of TOPSS is to alleviate hunger, provide nutrition information, and provide services to promote self-sufficiency to the families and individuals in need within the Talawanda School District in Southwestern Ohio.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 43 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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUSCARAWAS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF NEW PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVING HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP TUSCAZOAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Twin City Christian Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds Beneath The Shade ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc ↗
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: Blair E & Anna L Zimmerman Foundation Trust · Dewey H & Irene G Moomaw Foundation Trust · Haman Family Foundation Oag #98-1135 · Reeves Foundation · Doris & Floyd Kimble Foundation · Dover Exchange Club Childrens Foundation · Tuscarawas County Community Foundat · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Orlena Marsh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Orlena Marsh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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