· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $250
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U S CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST | $125,170 |
| THE SO THAT PROJECT | $62,585 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $62,585 |
| QUINCY NOTRE DAME | $250 |
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 (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 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 +47% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mother Dennis Foundation % Mercantile Bank Trust Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mother Dennis Foundation % Mercantile Bank Trust Services. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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