· Private foundation
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 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.
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 |
| ST LADISLAS ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN LEARNING CENTER | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS5× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +109%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +68%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +61%
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 47 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 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 FAMILIES FLOURISH INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALING MINISTRY 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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