Ohio · Private foundation
The Macbea Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Macbea Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $494k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $2.1M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $807k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $325k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $257k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Star House | $750,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mid-Ohio Foodbank | $390,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lifecare Alliance | $270,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Columbus Housing Partnership Inc | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Catholic Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lower Light Ministries Inc | $140,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Community Kitchen Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Chruch | $135,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Macbea Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Columbus Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Siemer Family Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Park National Corporation Foundation
How this is measured
About The Macbea Foundation
- How much does The Macbea Foundation give?
- The Macbea Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $2,871,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Macbea Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Religion (10%).
- Who are The Macbea Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Star House ($750k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($450k), Mid-Ohio Foodbank ($390k).
- Does The Macbea Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Macbea Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Macbea Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Harry C Moores Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
- Where is The Macbea Foundation based?
- The Macbea Foundation is based in OH.
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