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Margaret M Grow Charitable Foundati

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$139kReligion$108kEnvironment$72kArts & Culture$39kAnimals$16kCommunity Improvement$6kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$645k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMORY METHODIST CHURCH$20,250
SAVE A LIFE OF LAFAYETTE CNTY$12,500
MS FORESTRY FOUNDATION$12,500
CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION$10,250
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$6,000
BYHALIA AREA ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
MEMPHIS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION$2,500
MS FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$2,500
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
BYHALIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$2,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE: $1k → 14%MEMPHIS SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%JUNIOR AUXILLARY OF DESOTO COUNTY: $200 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$401k · 18 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$401k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+13%

Still filing today

39%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +82%
  • SO
    SAV-A-LIFE OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +77%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Shriners Hospital for Children
Philanthropy
2
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Desoto Inc

Baptist memorial hospital-desoto, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. its mission is to serve the community with respect to providing health care services and health…

Health
3
Louisiana Friends Against Childhood Cancer Inc

Louisiana friends against childhood cancer is organized and it shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational including fund raising, promotional, and other functions to encourage the treatment and early detection of…

Health
4
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
5
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville

Rooted in a tradition of Christian service, Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville expands access to high quality healthcare delivered with a compassionate and nurturing spirit to all.

Health
6
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
7
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
8
Baptist Memorial Hospital

Baptist memorial hospital provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.

Health
9
St Michael's Medical Clinic Inc

To provide healthcare to uninsured individuals.

Health
10
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
11
Kings Daughters Foundation

King's daughters foundation exists for the purpose of raising, receiving, and administering funds to assist and provide financial support to king's duaghters medical center. the medical center operates a 49 licensed-bed acute care hospital…

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12
St Joseph's Health System Subordinate Group Return

We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sav-a-Life of Lafayette County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMORY METHODIST CHURCH: $71,250 · OtherEMORY METHODIST CHURCHMS FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $50,500 · OtherMS FORESTRY FOUNDATIONMISSISSIPPI FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI FORESTRY FOUNDATION INCEMORY INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCH: $19,750 · OtherEMORY INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $16,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherMS FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherEMORY METHODIST CEMETARY ASSN: $8,000 · Other+8 more: $24,050 · Other+8 moreCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $61,500 · HealthCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATIONSAV-A-LIFE OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY INC: $39,500 · HealthSAV-A-LIFE OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $29,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthBYHALIA AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $39,000 · Arts & CultureBYHALIA AR…MEMPHIS SCOTTISH RITE FDN INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF DESOTO COUNTY: $200 · Human ServicesHEARTS AND HANDS MINISTRIES: $3,000 · Religion
Other$233,300Health$135,000Arts & Culture$39,000Human Services$3,700Religion$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $61,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSAV-A-LIFE OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY INC: $39,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetBYHALIA AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $39,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetByhalia Area Chamber of Commerce: $6,200 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS SCOTTISH RITE FDN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF DESOTO COUNTY: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAV-A-LIFE OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BYHALIA AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Byhalia Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS SCOTTISH RITE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF DESOTO COUNTY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Margaret M Grow Charitable Foundati funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret M Grow Charitable Foundati. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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