· Private foundation
The Mary Louise Foundation Inc
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.
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 $10k45 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY ADVISED FUND | $106,982 |
| WORLD VISION | $2,000 |
| PRIESTS FOR LIFE | $2,000 |
| CHRISTIAN APPLACHIAN PROJECT | $2,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE INDIAN MISSION | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION | $2,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $2,000 |
| BENEDICTINE HOUSE | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| MARYKNOLL SISTERS | $2,000 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| SALESIAN MISSION | $2,000 |
| FATHER NADONLY GOOD NEWS FUND | $2,000 |
| MOSAIC | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 42% of The Mary Louise Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in NE; by stated purpose, 4%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FTFEED THE CHILDREN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +34%
- MMOSAIC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +73%
SMILE TRAIN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SMSALESIAN MISSIONS INCone grant, 2020 · $12k
- SJST JOSEPH INDIAN ACHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- GNGOOD NEWS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To provide holistic, christ-centered care for orphaned and destitute children, enabling them to create positive and lasting change in their nations.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.
World pediatrics' mission is to heal children and advance pediatric healthcare in the world. world pediatrics' program model is built upon long-term engagement and continuity of multi-specialty care through direct patient care and local…
Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 105 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 FATHER NADOLNY GOOD NEWS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOARING EAGLE ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Fatima Center USA ↗
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: B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Horizons · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mary Louise Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Louise Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
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