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Marion Community Foundation
The mission of MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to continually improve the marion area community through philanthropy, leadership, and civic engagement.
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.
The 55 grants below total $1,816,630 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,465,006 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $648,376 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $712k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $677k
- $250k+1 grant · $323k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARION FAMILY YMCA | $322,881 |
| EMANUAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $227,969 |
| PALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $140,524 |
| EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $124,559 |
| THIRD STREET FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $124,106 |
| BUCKEYE RIDGE | $59,925 |
| MARION UNION STATION ASSOCIATION | $49,850 |
| JAIN CENTER OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $44,200 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $35,496 |
| DOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $33,397 |
| MARION FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $33,000 |
| PEACE AND FREEDOM COMMITTEE | $30,650 |
| HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER | $27,225 |
| MARION AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,695 |
| CENTER STREET COMMUNITY | $23,762 |
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
72 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 28 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107)8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +27%
- PCPALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $881k · revenue +40%
- CSCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- MFMarion Family YMCAone grant, 2024 · $212k
- 1I1967-2017 Inc dba Marion Speech & Hearing Center Incone grant, 2019 · $145k · revenue -62%
- MGMARION GENERAL HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +22%
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.
To strengthen and enhance economic development in marion
Promote history of marion iowa
The marion chamber of commerce works to promote commercial and economic growth and to foster civic improvements that benefit those who live in marion.
The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…
To emphasize the spiritual, mental, physical and social well-being of the senior citizens of marion county.
Care of approximately 261 aged and handicapped persons. services include medical, nutritional, recreational, and therapeutical.
Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana
To provide transportation, information, referral, training, meals, personal care and other services for the senior citizens in marion county.
The organization's mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Marion-area community through the support of community organizations and causes.
To provide educational scholarships to students in the marion community
Investing in the future of marion, kansas including operating the marion county food bank and providing for needy families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Street Community Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Small Charities India Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 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. 63 of the 112 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 Young Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107) ↗
- Who funds PALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARION UNION STATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC STENGEL TRUE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARION MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE RIDGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MARION INC ↗
- Who funds MARION AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 1967-2017 Inc dba Marion Speech & Hearing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS INC OF MARION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MARION PEP CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE AND FREEDOM COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEGE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LARUE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MARION COMMUNITY AREA NEW DEVELOPMENT-CAN DO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO 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: United Way of North Central Ohio Inc · OhioHealth Corporation Group Return · OhioHealth Corporation · Columbus Foundation · Henry a True Trust · Ohio History Connection · Waddell Foundation · Warren Brown Family Foundation · United Way of Delaware County · The Dayton Foundation · Ohio Humanities Council · Harry C Moores 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 Marion Community 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.