· Private foundation
Mary's Fund 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| K Picha | $6,500 |
| D Bailey | $6,500 |
| J Maxon | $5,000 |
| J Smith | $5,000 |
| F Conner | $5,000 |
| PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS | $5,000 |
| T Weikert | $5,000 |
| D Gregory-Tims | $5,000 |
| S Lutz | $5,000 |
| P Shonk | $5,000 |
| K Anderson | $5,000 |
| PASSIONLIFE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| M Mayes | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Mary's Fund Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +159% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PDPREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +159%
- BMBRIAN MUHA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +26%
- HIHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- SMST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $270k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -14%
- TST Shepherdone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.
We are an outreach ministry of jesus christ committed to providing compassionate guidance, education, and help for all involved prior to, during, and following an unplanned pregnancy.
Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
To share the gospel of jesus christ by offering practical, emotional, and spiritual support to those facing pregnancy & abortion related concerns
Sharing the gospel message and upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of Christ to men and women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing spiritual, physical, and emotional support.
Save a life international helps women in crisis; including crisis pregnancies, domestic violence, post-abortion depression and other types of hardships. they provide education and bring awareness to young people about the importance of…
Sharing the love of christ while promoting sexual integrity and bringing life affirming services to those unprepared for pregnancy or hurt by abortion
To provide support for pregnant women
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
Post-abortive and family crisis counseling via small groups, email, and publications; focus is to bring healing and forgiveness in a supportive, Christ-centered environment.
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 98 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: Columbus Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary's Fund Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary's Fund Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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