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Mary Heath Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAWFORD COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MONTROSE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UNION-YORK WATER DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FLAT ROCK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| PALESTINE YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| OBLONG TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION | $19,822 |
| OBLONG TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,650 |
| JASPER COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE | $14,772 |
| JASPER COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT | $14,500 |
| WADE COMMUNITY FIRE PROTECTION | $13,075 |
| VILLAGE OF HUTSONVILLE POLICE DEPT | $10,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -2% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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
- CCCRAWFORD COUNTY FAIR ASSC9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +17%
- LCLawrence Crawford Association for Exceptional Citizens2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +31%
- EREMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC2× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- PHPALESTINE HIGH SCHOOL CUSD 3one grant, 2020 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CCCRAWFORD CO SHERIFF OFFICEone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
The mission of the Crawford County Farm Bureau is to provide social, educational and promotional activities, programs and services for its membership, that will further the local agricultural industry.
The organization is ran and managed by a group of volunteers and is mandated to manage the county fairgrounds year-round as well as organize fund and implement the annual county fair in Crawford County KS. It is funded from local…
To educate and to introduce children to occupational and agricultural life
To organize and run the annual crawford county fair
To serve poor and needy individuals and families in Crawford County; to foster c cooperation and coordination among churches and religious organizations serving
We are a non-profit county museum, in Clark County Indiana.
Operating Clark County Fair, which serves over 850 4-H and FFA youth that exhibit at the fair, also education for youth and adults from Clark County and surrounding counties.
To improve the County and community fair grounds and facilities.
Preserve and Collect History of Clark County, Illinois
To supply food to low income families
4-h/ffa fair
Hold an annual agricultural fair for the youth in the county and surrounding areas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crawford County Kids Association and the most unlike its peers is Redeeming Love Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 27. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 123 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.
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.
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
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 Heath Foundation 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.
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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