· Private foundation
The Macbea Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAR HOUSE | $500,000 |
| ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $100,000 |
| COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MID OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $60,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| SAINT JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| WARM | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $50,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of The Macbea Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 92%.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 84 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 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 WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds The Eye Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Macbea Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Macbea Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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