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The Mlm Charitable 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.
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 $10k18 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE REDLANDS | $53,000 |
| LOCAL CHURCH MINISTRIES OF THE UCC | $50,000 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER | $35,000 |
| NW OHIO FOOD BANK | $32,000 |
| FEEDMORE | $28,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BAND SE MICHIGAN | $28,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| CLEARY UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH HOMES | $16,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $12,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DEFIANCE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
74 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- GCGRACE COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $311k · revenue +98%
- GSGirl Scouts of Western Ohio4× · 2022–2025 · $276k · revenue +13%
- CUCLEARY UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +137%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +76%- TCTYNDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $12k
- TNTOLEDO NORTHWESTERN FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $11k
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo and the most unlike its peers is Muddy Brook Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 99 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 GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds CLEARY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds JESUS CHURCH ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds RIVENDELL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ECHO INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN OHIO FOOD BANK ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Andersons Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Zenith Foundation Inc · Waite M B-Brand Foundation Tw · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · The Oswald Supporting Organization
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 Mlm Charitable 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.
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
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.
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