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Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,842
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,842
Organizations funded a year
14 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$733k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$43k0%
FY202415$40k0%
FY202315$44k0%
FY202214$45k7%
FY202115$40k0%
FY202015$39k0%
FY201915$40k0%
FY201815$40k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$149kHuman Services$124kReligion$27kAnimals$24kInternational$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$21k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pennsylvania Association for the Blind$25,64790%
Glade Run Lutheran Services$24,18090%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$24,18090%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$24,18090%
The Salvation Army$24,1809n/a
Children's Center of Mercer County$24,18090%
Shenango Valley Animal Shelter$24,18091%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$21,24780%
American Heart Association Inc$11,01040%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPennsylvania Association for the Blind: $25,647 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGlade Run Lutheran Services: $24,180 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $24,180 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $24,180 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Center of Mercer County: $24,180 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetShenango Valley Animal Shelter: $24,180 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,247 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,010 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004

How much does Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 give?
Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 reported 15 grants totaling $42,630 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Human Services (33%), Religion (7%).
Who are Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pennsylvania Association for the Blind ($26k), Glade Run Lutheran Services ($24k), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($24k).
Does Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 based?
Mary Sage Unitrust Xxxxx1004 is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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