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Mary's Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS - MORTON IL | $34,850 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH | $30,000 |
| YOUR EXCUSE IS INVALID | $13,800 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION | $3,000 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THE ARCHBISHOP FULTON JOHN SHEEN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II NATIONAL SHRINE | $1,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $1,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| FATHER BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
37 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- HLHUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +8%
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK7× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +31%
- PAPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS - NEW HAVEN CTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SJST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $6k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +98%
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.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
To educate the public about abortion
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To embrace the gospel value of welcoming the stranger by promoting the dignity and protecting the rights of immigrants in partnership with a dedicated network of catholic and community legal immigration programs.
To foster respect for human life and to defend the right to life of all human beings, born and unborn.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 79 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 HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds South West Special Recreation Association ↗
- Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation ↗
- Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
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: Cousineau Family Charity · Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation · The Moran Foundation · David Dinnocenti Memorial Foundation · G L Connolly Foundation · Vandevere Charitable Foundation · The Halprin Family Foundation B · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment 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's 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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