· Private foundation
Mary's Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $61,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,500 |
| POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $12,000 |
| YOUR EXCUSE IS INVALID | $10,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH | $5,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $3,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,700 |
| ST THOMAS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| NUGE TYRA MEMORIAL FUND | $1,500 |
| PRIESTS FOR LIFE | $1,000 |
| THE ARCHBISHOP FULTON JOHN SHEEN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS | $750 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPOPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +14%
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +38%
- HLHUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SJST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $6k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +98%
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.
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.
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.
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…
To foster respect for human life and to defend the right to life of all human beings, born and unborn.
To educate the public about abortion
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
The Center For Medical Progress is dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances through investigative journalism and other educational activities that address contemporary bioethical issues impacting human dignity.…
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…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 85 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.
- Who funds POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL 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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation ↗
- Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MARA FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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