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Mary W Covey 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$209kEducation$160kHuman Services$70kHousing & Shelter$59kAnimals$39kSocial Science$25kReligion$16kArts & Culture$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE$15,000
METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH$13,000
MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS$12,000
ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR HOSPITAL ART$9,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF$9,000
MUST MINISTRIES INC$7,000
KIDZ 2 LEADERS INC$7,000
ZOO ATLANTA$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $13k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $10k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $10k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $10k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $8k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $8k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $6k → 23%METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH: $5k → 23%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA: $4k → 23%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA: $4k → 23%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA: $3k → 23%RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA: $3k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$593k · 15 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$593k
$7k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsReligionOther

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

  • CH
    CHATHAM HALL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +25%
  • AR
    ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +455%
  • MH
    METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF MACON
    one grant, 2017 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
2
United Methodist Children's Home of the North Ga Conference Inc

To restore children and families from trauma through jesus christ (see schedule o).

Human Services
3
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…

Human Services
4
United Methodist Ministry With Children and Families Inc

Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…

Human Services
5
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
6
United Methodist Children's Home

Serving abused, neglected and abandoned children through group homes and foster care; facilitating adoptions; and family preservation.

Human Services
7
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.

Human Services
8
Family House of West Georgia Inc

Family house of west georgia provides a home away from home for families of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. the house gives children a place to play after a long day at the hospital, parents and…

Health
9
United Methodist Children's Home

To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…

Human Services
10
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Georgia

To provide care and comfort for the families of seriously ill, critically injured or medically fragile children who are being treated at area medical facilities.

Health
11
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Augusta Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of augusta, inc. (the organization) is a georgia nonprofit charitable corporation formed in 1984. the mission of ronald mcdonald house charities ("rmhc") is to create, find and support programs that directly…

12
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Must Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE — $75,000 · OtherCHILDREN HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARECOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF — $55,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OFOUR HOUSE INC — $45,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCGA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDN — $25,000 · OtherGA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDNMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $22,000 · OtherMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INCFOUNDATION FOR HOSPITAL ART INC — $19,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR HOSPITAL ART INCROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS — $9,000 · OtherZOO ATLANTA — $9,000 · Other+1 more — $7,200 · OtherCHATHAM HALL — $105,000 · EducationCHATHAM HALLMETHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC — $69,500 · Human ServicesMETHODIST HOME OF …Must Ministries Inc — $16,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries In…RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF …ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $93,000 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MC…ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $30,000 · AnimalsKIDZ2LEADERS INC — $7,000 · ReligionSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC — $7,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$266,200Education$105,000Human Services$99,000Health$93,000Animals$30,000Religion$7,000Recreation & Sports$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHATHAM HALL — $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $93,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMETHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC — $69,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOSPITAL ART INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMust Ministries Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 CHATHAM HALL
  • Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC
  • Who funds METHODIST HOME OF THE SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE INC
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC
  • Who funds MURPHY-HARPST CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HOSPITAL ART INC
  • Who funds Must Ministries Inc
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC
  • Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA 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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Clark and Ruby Baker Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 W Covey 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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