· Private foundation
The Macbea Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500,000 |
| STAR HOUSE | $500,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $100,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $60,000 |
| SAINT JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| WARM | $50,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| THE EYE CANCER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Macbea Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
- SHSTAR HOUSE3× · 2021–2025 · $750k · revenue +98%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +112%- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TCTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- OLOUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC CHRUCHone grant, 2024 · $135k
- MSMEN'S SHELTER OF DELAWARE COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food. Together with our partners, we provide nutritious food to those in need. We do this through collaborating with more than 100 partner agencies, which include emergency pantries, soup…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
To help individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency and emotional stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Directions for Youth and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvest Now. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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. 43 of the 84 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 COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Westfall CARES ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE GROW INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds FLAT ROCK HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY DECISION HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BOTTOMS FREE STORE ↗
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: 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
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 Macbea 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.
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.