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Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 6
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22
Human ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$100k100%
FY20224$330k50%
FY20195$650k100%
FY20186$2.5Mn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$2.4MFood & Nutrition$350kCommunity Improvement$300kHuman Services$180kArts & Culture$100kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
IN
NE
MO
VA
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Luther Seminary$1,100,0002n/a
Bread For The World Inc$250,00014%
Lutheran Diaconal Association Inc$250,000149%
Mosaic$250,00010%
Master Builder Center Inc$180,000224%
Associations of Lutheran Church Musicians Inc$100,000121%
Bread for the World Institute$100,00012%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

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About Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP

How much does Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP give?
Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (68%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Community Improvement (8%).
Who are Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Luther Seminary ($1.1M), Bread For The World Inc ($250k), Lutheran Diaconal Association Inc ($250k).
Does Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP based?
Marion I Breen Charitable Foundation co Spencer Fane LLP is based in MO.

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 14 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-PF 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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