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Mother Dennis Foundation % Mercantile Bank Trust Services
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $250
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U S CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST | $125,170 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $62,585 |
| THE SO THAT PROJECT | $62,585 |
| QUINCY NOTRE DAME | $250 |
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 (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2017–2019 · $19k · revenue +59%
- TCTHE CROSSING3× · 2017–2019 · $4k
- FCFREEDOM CHURCH2× · 2018–2019 · $4k
Funded once
- QSQUINSIPPI SOCCER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FWFINISHING WELL MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +133%
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 provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.
Christian movement dedicated to presenting Jesus Christ personally to this generation
To equip young leaders throughout Central and Eastern Europe to fulfill Christ's commission through the local church.
Helping others live in freedom of Christ by knowing and living by the truths set for in God's word, the Holy Bible.
The purpose of Word of Life Fellowship is evangelization and discipleship through various means consistent with the Holy Scriptures to help build and strengthen the Church of Jesus Christ. Ministries include camps and conferences, youth…
Exalting jesus christ igniting the church in the power of the holy spirit under the authority of the holy bible as the word of god through prayer, leadership development, growing the church, and mission outreach so that the church may be…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Equipping leaders to plant dynamic churches worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CHURCH ↗
- Who funds FINISHING WELL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds A Time to Revive ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Well House Inc NFP ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Nuessen Family Foundation · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Michelmann Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Mother Dennis Foundation % Mercantile Bank Trust Services 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.
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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