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· Private foundation
MARIAN FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$1.6M
Granted FY2025
20
Grants
1
Communities
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Religion$1.5MHuman Services$44kHealth$40kOther$839k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
specialfood pantryyouthscholarshipsuppliesadopt
2020
food pantryscholarshipyouthsuppliesmaintenanceadopt
2021
vincent paul
2022
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2023
catholic
2024
catholic
2025
mary madalenecatholic
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $84k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS$1,498,169
- ST MARY MADALENE CHURCH$33,800
- ST MARY MADALENE SCHOOL$15,000
- BISHOP READY HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
- HOLY ROSARY & ST JOHN CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
- ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
- CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS$6,000
- JOIN$5,500
- DOMINICAN LEARNING CENTER$5,000
- THE DESERT ISLAND CLUB INC$5,000
- ST MARY MAGDALENE ATHLETIC ASSOC$5,000
- BIRTHRIGHT OF COLUMBUS$4,000
- WOMEN'S CARE CENTER$4,000
- CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$3,000
- DOWNTOWNERS CAMPUS MINISTRY$3,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$851k · 31 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
31
8
Total granted
$851k
$20k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+96%
+54%
Still filing today
19%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionHealthOther
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
- TCTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS4× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +96%
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +35%
- LLLOWER LIGHTS MINISTRIES6× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- COCOMMUNITY OF HOLY ROSARY - ST JOHN'Sone grant, 2021 · $5k
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BHBETHESDA HEALING MINISTRYone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Columbus Female Benevolent Society
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2
The Christian Century
Publication of religious magazine.
Arts & Culture
3
Mercymed of Columbus Inc
Mercymed of columbus, inc. (mercymed) exists to proclaim jesus christ as lord and to demonstrate his love by providing affordable, quality healthcare for the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the underserved. as a non-profit…
Health
4
Catholic Family Service
Counseling individuals and families, foster care and adoptions.
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5
Catholic Charities Corporation
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.
Human Services
6
Catholic Charities Housing Development
Develop affordable housing in hawaii.
Housing & Shelter
7
Christ in Her
Our main objectives are to empower the women of our diocese to find healing, spiritual direction, and encourage authentic connection with the purpose of uplifting each other and evangelizing to other women who may be struggling in their…
Religion
8
Christian Counseling & Educational
CCEF exists to Restore Christ to counseling and counseling to the church by thinking biblically about the issues of living. CCEF does this through teaching, speaking, counseling, and writing.
Human Services
9
Catholic Charities of the Diocese
To proclaim christs gospel of life and promote human dignity by alleviating poverty and strenghting individuals and families
Human Services
10
Catholic Charities of California
To promote the social welfare of california, with particular regard for the poor and marginalized through the twelve diocesan charities agencies.
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11
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw
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…
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12
Lourdes Columbian Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Social Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation of the Catholic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Religion$1,501,169Other$838,933Human Services$44,000Health$40,100
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 INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHTS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEMERGY ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALING MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FLOURISH ↗
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.
Columbus FoundationOH16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIRTHRIGHT OF COLUMBUS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 237160094 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BIRTHRIGHT OF COLUMBUS, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Marian Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Marian Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines