How much did THE MLM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE MLM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

sighteducationland protectionresearchstreetpreservation

2019

sighteducation scholarshipland protectionresearchalumnaepreservation

2020

education scholarshipland protectionchristmasresearchgreater toledosummerpreservation

2021

nature conservancysummercamp

2022

nature conservancyinternationalsummerhealth

2023

internationalsummer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $82k
$10k–50k17 grants · $259k
$50k–250k2 grants · $122k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO$72,000
LOCAL CHURCH MINISTRIES OF THE UCC$50,000
GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER$35,000
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
CLEARY UNIVERSITY$23,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BAND SE MICHIGAN$16,000
FEEDMORE$16,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE REDLANDS$15,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ASSOCIATION$12,000
NW OHIO FOOD BANK$11,000
TOLEDO NORTHWESTERN FOOD BANK$11,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$10,000
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY$10,000
UNITED CHURCH HOMES$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 83 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

83 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

-2%

Still filing today

29%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

GC
GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +98%
GS
GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO
3× · 2022–2024 · $216k · revenue +7%
CU
CLEARY UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +96%

Funded once

TC
TYNDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $12k
WC
WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $8k
SA
SALVATION ARMY HOWELL RED KETTLE FD
one grant, 2020 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Louisville Collegiate School

To operate a jk-12, co-educational independent school.

Education

Luther College

On a campus of more than 800 acres along the banks of the upper iowa river in decorah, iowa, luther is a true residential campus, with 97 percent of students living on campus and nearly 95 percent of faculty choosing to live within five…

Education

Oberlin College

Core values derived from our mission include: - Educational Excellence: The College of Arts and Sciences and Conservatory of Music are committed to educating students to achieve academic and musical excellence in an environment where…

Education

Loyola University of Chicago

We are one of the nation's largest jesuit, catholic universities with over 17,000 students. we work to expand knowledge through learning, justice, and faith.

Education

Lourdes University

Lourdes university, rooted in catholic and franciscan traditions, provides a values-centered education that enriches lives and advances academic excellence.

Education

Ohio Wesleyan University

Owu is one of the nation's premier small liberal arts colleges, boasting strong relationships between students and faculty and opportunities that prepare students for service and leadership.

Education

Lausanne Collegiate School

To prepare each of its students for college and for life in a global environment

Education

Ohio Dominican University

As a Catholic liberal arts university in the Dominican tradition, Ohio Dominican University is guided in its educational mission by the Dominican motto: to contemplate truth and to share with others the fruits of this contemplation. Ohio…

Education

College of Our Lady of the Elms

To educate a diverse group of students in a supportive, vibrant learning community.

Education

Eastern University

Eastern University is a diverse, Christ-centered community preparing graduates to impact the world through faith, reason, and justice.

Education

Olivet Nazarene University

To provide high-quality academic instruction for the purpose of personal development, career and professional readiness, and the preparation of individuals for lives of service to God and humanity.

Education

Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College is a National Residential Liberal Arts College, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is Child's Play. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 52 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/35

the rest of the field

6,875/74,271

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.

05the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/31

Grantees still filing

22/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,182,500Education$340,500Youth Development$216,000Human Services$168,000Religion$62,000Health$54,500Environment$30,000

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.

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.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · The O-I Charities Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Ge Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +98% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 341262055 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Mlm Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mlm Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MLM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mlm Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE MLM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Mlm Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph