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Mary Heath Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$374k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
39%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,374
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Mary Heath Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationEmploymentFood & NutritionHealthOther
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 arriving29$374k62%
FY202423$272k39%
FY202322$269k45%
FY202226$286k31%
FY202119$235k42%
FY202024$310k50%
FY201920$282k50%
FY201821$226k86%
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What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$742kArts & Culture$355kRecreation & Sports$261kCrime & Legal$260kEducation$169kHealth$151kHuman Services$111kScience & Tech$91kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crawford County Fair Assc$130,50097%
Crawford County Historical Society Inc$49,8353n/a
Crawford County Heritage Foundation$44,477397%
Crawford County Kids Association$30,000219%
New Hebron Christian School$26,5363n/a
Lawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens$21,49121%
Palestine Youth Baseball League$20,0001n/a
Hutsonville Historical Society Inc$20,0001n/a
Giving Hope Olney Food Pantry Nfp$19,500128%
Upper Room Street Ministries Inc$16,0003n/a
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All grantees of Mary Heath Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crawford County Fair Assc$130,50097%
Crawford County Historical Society Inc$49,8353n/a
Crawford County Heritage Foundation$44,477397%
Crawford County Kids Association$30,000219%
New Hebron Christian School$26,5363n/a
Lawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens$21,49121%
Palestine Youth Baseball League$20,0001n/a
Hutsonville Historical Society Inc$20,0001n/a
Giving Hope Olney Food Pantry Nfp$19,500128%
Upper Room Street Ministries Inc$16,0003n/a
Robinson Girls Softball Association$12,500228%
Redeeming Love Ministries Inc$11,0001n/a
Palestine Community Food Bank$10,0001n/a
Lawrence County Junior Fair Associa$10,000111%
Palestine Development Association$10,000116%
Casey Saddle Club Inc$10,0001n/a
Oblong Children's Christian Home$9,96520%
Illinois Oil Field Museum at Oblong$7,5001n/a
Crawford County Recreation Center$6,17011%
Embarras River Basin Agency Inc$5,52920%
Saved by Grace Animal Rescue$5,0001n/a
Crawford County Saddle Club Nfp$5,0001n/a
Crossroads Youth Center Inc$5,00014%
Sainte Marie Foundation$4,931315%
Sunrise Youth Soccer$4,8252n/a
Chauncey Crossroads$4,1811n/a
Oblong Soccer League Inc$4,0001n/a
Jasper County Youth Soccer$2,9721n/a
Lawrence County Arts Council$2,8881n/a
Clothing Center Workshop$2,5401n/a
Cusd 201 Elementary PTO Fka Jtmanning School PTO$2,4691n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mary Heath Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrawford County Fair Assc: $130,500 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetCrawford County Heritage Foundation: $44,477 over 3y, 97% of budgetCrawford County Kids Association: $30,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetLawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens: $21,491 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGiving Hope Olney Food Pantry Nfp: $19,500 over 1y, 28% of budgetRobinson Girls Softball Association: $12,500 over 2y, 28% of budgetLawrence County Junior Fair Associa: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPalestine Development Association: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOblong Children's Christian Home: $9,965 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCrawford County Recreation Center: $6,170 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEmbarras River Basin Agency Inc: $5,529 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Youth Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSainte Marie Foundation: $4,931 over 3y, 15% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Silas & Ruth Claypool FoundationIL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation · Maxine E Spitler Foundation % Rita M Kocher · Orell Farley Foundation %Melisa Griffith Trust Officer Psb · Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Mary Heath Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mary Heath Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mary Heath Foundation

How much does Mary Heath Foundation give?
Mary Heath Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $374,424 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary Heath Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (29%), Arts & Culture (14%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Mary Heath Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crawford County Fair Assc ($131k), Crawford County Historical Society Inc ($50k), Crawford County Heritage Foundation ($44k).
Does Mary Heath Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Heath Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Heath Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation, Maxine E Spitler Foundation % Rita M Kocher, Orell Farley Foundation %Melisa Griffith Trust Officer Psb.
Where is Mary Heath Foundation based?
Mary Heath Foundation is based in IL.

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 123 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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