· Private foundation
John & Orlena Marsh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of JOHN & ORLENA MARSH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC | $5,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $4,273 |
| OHIO DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| BENEATH THE SHADE | $2,500 |
| OHIO GUIDESTONE | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $2,500 |
| TUSCARAWAS CO CHURCH & COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| TUSCARAWAS COUNTY LITERACY COALITION | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
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
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
- BCBUCKEYE CAREER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $5k
- RIRTY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TLTHE LOVING HEART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +6%
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is OhioGuidestone and the most unlike its peers is Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 43 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 BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds TUSCORA PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUSCARAWAS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF NEW PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOVING HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TUSCAZOAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
- Who funds Twin City Christian Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds Beneath The Shade ↗
- Who funds Perry Township Search and Rescue Inc ↗
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: 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
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 John & Orlena Marsh 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.