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Marian Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Marian Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Foundation Of The Catholic Diocese Of Columbus, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Marian Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $117k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH | $21,000 |
| ST MARY MAGDALENE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BISHOP READY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST MARY MAGDALENE ATHLETIC ASSOC | $5,000 |
| THE DESERT ISLAND CLUB INC | $5,000 |
| JOIN | $5,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF HILLTOP | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST LADISLAS ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $4,500 |
| NETCARE ACCESS | $4,500 |
| BIRTHRIGHT OF COLUMBUS | $4,000 |
| HOLY ROSARY & ST JOHN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS5× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +96%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +68%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SCST CHARLESone grant, 2017 · $9k
- COCOMMUNITY OF HOLY ROSARY - ST JOHN'Sone grant, 2021 · $5k
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Provide complete and caring pregnancy services (without prejudice to religion, age, race, gender, marital status or income level) through its women's centers and prenatal care facility, as well as provide marriage enrichment, healthy…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.
Columbus early learning centers (celc) has over 130 years of history providing high quality, affordable early learning and childcare in central ohio. this rich history places celc amongst the oldest early childcare programs in the country.…
St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities exists to affirm the dignity of and respect for all human life by assisting individuals and families in need to achieve empowerment and self-sufficiency.
Guided by our catholic and felician traditions, we nurture and educate the whole child in a peaceful and faith-filled environment.
To provide social services to those in need, focusing on nine areas: behavioral health, family stabilization & success, guardianship, hispanic outreach, pregnancy & parenting, refugee resettlement, services for older adults, supervised…
Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.
Provide day care services for up to 20 children, ages newborn to 5.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Counseling individuals and families and foster care services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Stephen Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Desert Island Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 47 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 FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds THE DESERT ISLAND CLUB ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIDE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEMERGY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FLOURISH 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: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · The Macbea Foundation · Mount Carmel Health System
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 Marian 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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