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Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $380k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY HEALTH SYSTEM SCHOOL | $79,007 |
| FARMACY WV PRESCRIPTIONS FOR | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $62,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTH SYSTEM OUTPATIENT PT | $60,000 |
| VALLEY HOSPICE | $54,365 |
| OHIO VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK | $50,000 |
| THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELIN | $45,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY JOINT VOCATIONAL | $44,140 |
| TRINITY HEALTH SYSTEM MEDICAL LAB | $32,714 |
| EASTER SEALS | $28,111 |
| CHANGE INC | $19,755 |
| UNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $16,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY WELFARE LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| SMITHFIELD FRIENDS CHURCH FOOD | $15,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PARK DISTRICT OF | $11,230 |
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 (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k 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
- VHVALLEY HOSPICE INC4× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +56%
- OVOHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $228k · revenue +218% · 79% of their budget
- FUFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE2× · 2018–2021 · $215k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- PTPRIME TIMEone grant, 2019 · $103k
- PTPRIME TIME OFFICE ON AGINGone grant, 2022 · $100k
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY COURT OF COMMONone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To offer support to those recovering from addictions
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Provide access to affordable high quality integrated care for all. Our organization offers a wide range of services, which includes comprehensive behavioral health care, dental health care, and primary health care. Hopewell Health Centers…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Our mission is to support and grow the ecosystem of non-profit, non-partisan organizations doing year-round civic engagement with underrepresented communities in order to improve people's lives.
Columbus alliance for battered women provides emergency shelter, security, crisis intervention, and advocacy for adult and child victims of domestic violence.
Abortion Fund of Ohio provides financial assistance and practical support (transportation / housing / etc) to help patients afford contraception, emergency contraception, and abortion services.
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Jefferson County and the most unlike its peers is Old Fort Steuben Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 67 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 VALLEY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Valley Youth Network ↗
- Who funds URBAN MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD FORT STEUBEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL EMERGENCYTRAUMA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FARMacyWV ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AIM WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SOUP KITCHEN OF GREATER WHEELING INC ↗
- Who funds ALIVE 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · Steel Valley Charities · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · American Electric Power Foundation · Starvaggi Charities Inc · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Jane Brooks Charitable Trust 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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