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The Five M 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.

$260k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
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.

Education$530kPhilanthropy$347kHealth$233kHuman Services$182kFood & Nutrition$143kReligion$138kArts & Culture$130kCommunity Improvement$108kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLE EDUCATION & TRANINING HUB$100,000
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES$15,000
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$14,500
TITUSVILLE AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$14,500
TITUSVILLE AREA FOOD BANK$14,500
UNITED WAY OF TITUSVILLE REGION$14,500
BENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC$12,000
GREATER TITUSVILLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$10,000
LOVE INC$7,000
TITUSVILLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS$7,000
YMCA OF TITUSVILLE$7,000
TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION$7,000
TITUSVILLE WOODLAWN$7,000
TITUSVILLE RENAISSANCE INC$7,000
TITUSVILLE ROTARY CHARITABLE ORG$6,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $15k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $10k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $10k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $10k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $8k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $8k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $7k → 14%TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION: $5k → 14%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
2

Total granted

$1.9M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+153%

Still filing today

35%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $216k
  • TA
    TITUSVILLE AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $210k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLE EDUCATION & TRANINING HUB
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k

Funded once

  • BD
    BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +153%
  • CC
    CRAWFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +2%

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
Titusville Community Development Services Inc

To promote economic development in the Titusville, Pennsylvania geographic area.

Community Improvement
2
Titus Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Firefighting & rescue

3
Kittitas County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
4
Tipton County Council On Aging Inc

The goal/purpose of the tipton county council on aging is to assist, encourage, monitor and develop comprehensive and coordinatd shervies for older hoosers with a geographice area comprised of tipton county.

Human Services
5
Twiggs County Animal Rescue

Save animals in a county with no animal services

Animals
6
Tiltonsville Volunteer Fire Department

None

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary
8
Tuscarawas County Community Foundat
Philanthropy
9
Kittson County Historical Society

Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.

10
Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society

To provide food, shelter, and vet services for stray, unwanted, and terminally ill animals in the warren county and vicksburg area.

Animals
11
Titusville Regional Literacy Council

To restore literacy skills to the greater titusville community.

Education
12
Tipton County Paws and Claws

To save shelter animals as well as strays and owner surrenders; to promote spaying/neutering; and to find ways to control the pet overpopulation in the community

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Titusville Area Senior Citizens Cor and the most unlike its peers is Hospice of Crawford County 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLE — $215,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLETITUSVILLE AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $209,500 · OtherTITUSVILLE AREA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLE EDUCATION & TRANINING HUB — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-TITUSVILLE EDUCATION & TRANINING HUBUNITED WAY OF TITUSVILLE REGION — $176,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF TITUSVILLE REGIONTitusville Area Food Bank — $142,500 · OtherTitusville Area Food BankST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $138,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHBENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $114,000 · OtherBENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARYYMCA OF TITUSVILLE — $109,500 · OtherYMCA OF TITUSVILLEASSOCIATED CHARITIES — $72,000 · OtherTITUSVILLE WOODLAWN CORPORATION — $62,000 · Other+7 more — $177,500 · Other+7 moreGREATER TITUSVILLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $107,500 · Community ImprovementTITUSVILLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED — $82,000 · Arts & CultureTITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COR — $72,500 · Human ServicesBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsCRAWFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 · Animals
Other$1,617,000Community Improvement$107,500Arts & Culture$82,000Human Services$72,500Animals$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTitusville Area Food Bank — $142,500 over 9y, 37% of budgetBENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $114,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetGREATER TITUSVILLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $107,500 over 8y, 59% of budgetTITUSVILLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED — $82,000 over 9y, 22% of budgetTITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COR — $72,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetTITUSVILLE WOODLAWN CORPORATION — $62,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetHospice of Crawford County Inc — $23,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Titusville Area Food Bank
  • Who funds BENSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
  • Who funds GREATER TITUSVILLE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TITUSVILLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INCORPORATED
  • Who funds TITUSVILLE AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COR
  • Who funds TITUSVILLE WOODLAWN CORPORATION
  • Who funds Hospice of Crawford County Inc
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC
  • Who funds THE TITUSVILLE GARDEN CLUB
  • Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY

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.

John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable FouPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John Nesbit Rees & Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Fou · Fleming Family Foundation · 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 The Five M 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 22 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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