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The Membery Foundation at a glance

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The Membery 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.

$187k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$338kReligion$44kArts & Culture$10kInternational$10kHealth$8kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS CAMPS$119,200
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST - BOULDER$19,350
WIDE HORIZON - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CARE$6,000
THE CAMPERSHIP FUND$5,000
THE CHARLES MOORE FOUNDATION$5,000
EUPHRATES INSTITUTE$5,000
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEE FOR INSTITUTIONAL WORK IN COLORADO$2,000
ADVENTURE UNLIMITED$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ARDEN WOOD - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CARE$1,000
PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE$1,000
CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$443k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$443k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    The Cedars Camps Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2023–2025 · $44k
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST - BOULDER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $39k

Funded once

  • H
    HYMNSTREAM
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hill Top Center
Health
2
Tenacre Foundation
Religion
3
Desert View

Desert views mission is to support an individuals healing practice of christian science by providing christian science nursing whenever there is a need.

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4
Christ's Hospital
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5
Christian Healthcare Specialists

Christian Healthcare Specialists exists to provide exceptional medical services to the community, guided by Biblical values.

Health
6
Christian Science Nursing Care Endowment

Providing financial support to non-profit care facilities for nursing/care.

Human Services
7
Visiting Christian Science Nursing Service for Los Angeles County Inc

Nursing care for christian scientists.

Health
8
Redwood Community for Christian Scientists Inc

To provide christian science nursing care in a homelike setting.

Housing & Shelter
9
Clearview Home Corporation

The mission of clearview home is to provide a sanctuary for healing by shining the light of love through christian science nursing.

Health
10
Christian Healing Network dba Mission Medical Center

The mission of the organization is to provide comprehensive health and wellness services to persons in the Pikes Peak Region of the State of Colorado who are uninsured or underinsured.

Religion
11
United Christian Ashrams International

The mission of the christian ashram is to help people deepen their experience of god in daily living. we welcome people of all faiths and no faith to attend our events. we invite all persons to follow jesus christ and thereby discover,…

Religion
12
Biblos Foundation

The Biblos Foundation is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to encouraging a deeper interest in and appreciation for biblical studies. The mandate of the foundation is to instigate advanced research and to share valuable insights…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association; the most unlike its peers is Hymnstream. 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 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Cedars Camps Inc: $331,098 · OtherThe Cedars Camps IncIndividual grant recipient: $44,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST - BOULDER: $39,350 · OtherFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST - BOULDER+3 more: $8,500 · OtherTHE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $10,000 · InternationalCharles W Moore Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWIDE HORIZON INC: $6,000 · HealthARDEN WOOD INC: $1,000 · HealthChestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $6,000 · Human ServicesHYMNSTREAM: $2,000 · ReligionPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionTHE CHAMPIONS FUND INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$422,948International$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$7,000Human Services$6,000Religion$3,000Philanthropy$1,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Cedars Camps Inc: $331,098 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCharles W Moore Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetChestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWIDE HORIZON INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARDEN WOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAMPIONS FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Tenacre FoundationThe Isabel FoundationMueller Hoisel Wanger…The Borch FoundationSpaulding Family Foun…Annie FoundationToledo Community Foun…ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Tenacre FoundationNJ22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tenacre Foundation · The Isabel Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · The Borch Foundation · Spaulding Family Foundation · Annie Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Membery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Membery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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