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Mary E Van Drew Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MATTHEW 25 HEALTH AND DEN | $9,000 |
| MEDICAL MISSIONARIES | $6,000 |
| THE BVM FOUNDATION MOTHER OF MERCY | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| WOMENS CARE CENTER | $4,500 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLED CHILD | $3,500 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER INC | $3,500 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CH SOUP | $3,500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $3,000 |
| EDMUNDITE MISSIONS | $3,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOREIGN MISSIONS | $2,500 |
| HOUSE OF MERCY | $2,500 |
| MCMILLEN HEALTH | $2,000 |
| DAMAR SVCS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- MMMedical Missionaries Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +44%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +95%
- FCFRANCISCAN CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- BOBASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINEone grant, 2020 · $1k
- ASALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Create positive change in the lives of those we serve.
Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…
To provide comprehensive, community-based outreach services to homeless individuals and families, by creating opportunities that will help break the cycle of homelessness.
Franciscan charities, inc. is a not-for profit organization located in newark, new jersey which was organized and operates to tend to the critical needs of the poor, provide tools to rise above poverty and support physical, emotional and…
St. margaret's is a faith-based organization that provides quality nursing care to the poor.
The mission of Terre Haute Catholic Charities Foodbank is to feed the hungry in Clay, Greene, Knox, Parke, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo counties through a network of emergency food distribution member agencies and engage our community in…
The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.
To provide charitable services such as food and shelter to the needy and poor of the city of lawrence and surrounding communities
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
The staff and volunteers of Catholic Charities Indianapolis are called by the Gospel to uphold the dignity of all people. Guided by Catholic social teaching, we consider it a privilege to deliver compassionate and caring service to help…
To provide food, clothing, and shelter to homeless and abandoned individuals and families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iris Family Support Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 34 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 Medical Missionaries Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER WAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR IN RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds 42STRONG ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION LIFE LINE INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER 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.
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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 Mary E Van Drew Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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