· Private foundation
Mary Heath Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAWFORD COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY | $20,000 |
| FLAT ROCK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| UNION-YORK WATER DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| MONTROSE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PALESTINE YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -2% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 123 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.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Heath Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Heath Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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