· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| FRANCISCAN CENTER INC | $3,500 |
| TURNSTONE CENTER FOR DISABLED CHILD | $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 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $2,000 |
| 42 STRONG | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMedical Missionaries Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +44%
- WCWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +115%
- 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
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 34 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary E Van Drew Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary E Van Drew Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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