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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$323k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.8MReligion$2.3MArts & Culture$2.3MEducation$1.7MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$467kHousing & Shelter$374kCommunity Improvement$351kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 55 grants below total $1,816,630, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,465,006 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $648,376 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $712k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $677k
  • $250k+1 grant · $323k
$15,976
Median grant
4
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Marion Family YMCA: $324k → 17%MARION FAMILY YMCA: $323k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $265k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $262k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $249k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $241k → 17%Marion Family YNCA: $209k → 17%Marion Matters: $70k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $66k → 17%Marion Matters: $42k → 17%Marion Matters: $42k → 17%Marion Matters: $31k → 17%Marion Matters: $31k → 17%Heart of Ohio Homeless Shelter: $31k → 17%Marion Matters: $28k → 17%HEART OF OHIO HOMELESS SHELTER: $27k → 17%Marion Shelter Program: $26k → 17%Marion Matters: $24k → 17%Marion Matters: $24k → 17%Heart of Ohio Homeless Shelter: $22k → 17%MARION MATTERS INC: $21k → 17%Marion Shelter Program: $21k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $19k → 17%Marion Shelter Program: $18k → 17%American Red Cross - Marion: $13k → 17%Leapin' Outreach Center: $13k → 17%Marion Shelter Program: $12k → 17%American Red Cross: $10k → 17%Marion Shelter Program Inc: $10k → 17%Ohio Heartland Community Action: $10k → 17%Marion Crawford Prevention: $10k → 17%Marion Crawford Prevention: $10k → 17%MARION COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 17%Luke 3 11 Ministries: $9k → 17%Marion Shelter: $9k → 17%Ohio Heartland Commission: $7k → 17%Marion Senior Citizens: $7k → 17%MARION SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 17%Luke 3 11 Ministries: $7k → 17%Marion Senior Citizens Assoc: $6k → 17%LEAPIN' OUTREACH CENTER: $6k → 17%Luke 3 11 Ministries: $6k → 17%Leapin' Outreach Center: $6k → 17%Ohio Heartland Community Action: $6k → 17%LUKE 311 MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%Ohio Heatland: $5k → 17%American Red Cross: $5k → 17%Ohio Heartland: $5k → 17%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 72 repeat orgs$960k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
28

Total granted

$12M
$797k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107)
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +27%
  • PC
    PALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $881k · revenue +40%
  • CS
    CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • MF
    Marion Family YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $212k
  • 1I
    1967-2017 Inc dba Marion Speech & Hearing Center Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $145k · revenue -62%
  • MG
    MARION GENERAL HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +22%
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
Marion Economic Development Company

To strengthen and enhance economic development in marion

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2
Marion Historical Society Inc

Promote history of marion iowa

Arts & Culture
3
Marion Chamber of Commerce

The marion chamber of commerce works to promote commercial and economic growth and to foster civic improvements that benefit those who live in marion.

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4
Columbia-Marion County Development Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
Marion County Humane Society

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…

Animals
6
Marion County Council On Aging

To emphasize the spiritual, mental, physical and social well-being of the senior citizens of marion county.

Human Services
7
Marion County Horizon Center

Care of approximately 261 aged and handicapped persons. services include medical, nutritional, recreational, and therapeutical.

Health
8
Martin County Senior Citizens Housing Inc

Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana

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9
Marion County Senior Citizens Inc

To provide transportation, information, referral, training, meals, personal care and other services for the senior citizens in marion county.

Human Services
10
Marion Area Community Foundation

The organization's mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Marion-area community through the support of community organizations and causes.

Philanthropy
11
Marion Community Scholarship Foundation Inc

To provide educational scholarships to students in the marion community

Education
12
Marion Advancement Campaign Inc

Investing in the future of marion, kansas including operating the marion county food bank and providing for needy families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Street Community Clinic Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 112 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
41/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EPWORTH METHODIST CHURCH: $835,996 · OtherEPWORTH METHODIST CHURCHEMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $761,822 · OtherEMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHMarion Technical College: $565,256 · OtherMarion Technical CollegeMarion Catholic School: $346,460 · OtherMARION COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC STENGEL TRUE MUSEUM INC: $325,108 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTY: $309,395 · OtherMARION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $267,064 · Other+73 more: $3,745,309 · Other+73 moreYoung Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107): $1,938,896 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian As…MARION MATTERS INC: $315,388 · Human ServicesMARION MATTERS INCMARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC: $176,176 · Human ServicesMARION SHELTER PROGRAM …+7 more: $182,288 · Human Services+7 morePALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $880,905 · Arts & CulturePALACE CULTU…MARION UNION STATION ASSOCIATION: $331,725 · Arts & CultureMARION UNION…OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $204,531 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY…CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $403,776 · HealthCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC: $271,842 · HealthMARION GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 · HealthWINGS OF AN ANGEL: $35,144 · Health+4 more: $44,201 · HealthPEACE AND FREEDOM COMMITTEE: $121,430 · EducationDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $87,805 · EducationKNOWLEGE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $81,090 · EducationMARION TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $42,676 · Education+1 more: $7,200 · EducationDOWNTOWN MARION INC: $148,195 · Community ImprovementGREATER MARION COMMUNITY AREA NEW DEVELOPMENT-CAN DO: $72,500 · Community ImprovementMARION AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $51,500 · Community ImprovementMARION PEP CLUB: $133,817 · Recreation & SportsPRAIRIE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $92,383 · Recreation & SportsFOR THE CHILDREN: $10,253 · Recreation & Sports
Other$7,156,410Human Services$2,612,748Arts & Culture$1,417,161Health$809,963Education$340,201Community Improvement$272,195Recreation & Sports$236,453

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 budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Marion County Ohio (5107): $1,938,896 over 8y, 10% of budgetPALACE CULTURAL ARTS ASSOCIATION: $880,905 over 7y, 12% of budgetCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $403,776 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMARION UNION STATION ASSOCIATION: $331,725 over 6y, 62% of budgetMARION COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC STENGEL TRUE MUSEUM INC: $325,108 over 8y, 30% of budgetMARION MATTERS INC: $315,388 over 9y, 39% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARION COUNTY: $309,395 over 6y, 58% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC: $271,842 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMARION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $267,064 over 9y, 41% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $204,531 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKEYE RIDGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $197,813 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetMARION SHELTER PROGRAM INC: $176,176 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN MARION INC: $148,195 over 6y, 42% of budgetMARION AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $145,574 over 6y, 18% of budgetFEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUBS INC OF MARION COUNTY: $134,617 over 6y, 16% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC: $133,408 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPEACE AND FREEDOM COMMITTEE: $121,430 over 6y, 42% of budgetPRAIRIE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $92,383 over 5y, 92% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $87,805 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKNOWLEGE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $81,090 over 2y, 42% of budgetLARUE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $78,700 over 3y, 26% of budgetGREATER MARION COMMUNITY AREA NEW DEVELOPMENT-CAN DO: $72,500 over 2y, 27% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $71,691 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF MARION COUNTY INC: $69,025 over 6y, 47% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF COLUMBUS: $63,180 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMARION ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PROGRAM INC: $55,781 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMARION GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARION AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $48,256 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarion Voices Folklife & Oral History: $47,250 over 2y, 34% of budgetMARCA INDUSTRIES INC: $40,869 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMARION ROTARY FOUNDATION: $40,809 over 1y, 17% of budgetWINGS OF AN ANGEL: $35,144 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOHIO HEARTLAND COMMUNITY ACTION: $32,875 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLuke 3 11 Ministries: $27,028 over 4y, 12% of budgetLEAPIN OUTREACH CENTER: $24,709 over 3y, 13% of budgetMARION CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $23,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMARION-CRAWFORD PREVENTION PROGRAMS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMARION SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC: $19,420 over 3y, 29% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $17,201 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI NATL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOHIO COALITION FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $14,384 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMARION GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC: $13,580 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTERRADISE NATURE CENTER: $13,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetFederation of Jain Associations in North America: $11,001 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN: $10,253 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of North C…OhioHealth Corporatio…OhioHealth CorporationColumbus FoundationHenry a True TrustOhio History Connecti…Waddell FoundationWarren Brown Family F…United Way of Delawar…The Dayton FoundationOhio Humanities Counc…Harry C Moores Founda…
United Way of North Central Ohio IncOH43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marion Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 112 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 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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