· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BAND SE MICHIGAN | $28,000 |
| FEEDMORE | $28,000 |
| CLEARY UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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 |
| TOLEDO DAY NURSERY | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
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…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 99 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mlm Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mlm Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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