· Private foundation
The Mpb Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $166,500 |
| HOPE ALIVE INITIATIVES | $150,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $130,000 |
| MISSION OF LOVE | $120,000 |
| 30 HEARTS | $80,000 |
| INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE NORTH AMERICA | $70,000 |
| ST COLUMBKILLE PARISH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| AUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| MY DAILY ARMOR MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| GLOBAL DISCIPLES | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY IMPACT ORGANIZATION | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| ST COLUMBKILLE PARISH | $40,000 |
| RESCUE ONE MORE INC | $34,834 |
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, $880k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Mpb Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 48% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- HAHOPE ALIVE INITIATIVES6× · 2020–2025 · $730k · revenue +135% · 44% of their budget
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $572k · revenue +50%- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION3× · 2023–2025 · $480k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ODOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $147k · revenue +231%
- NANORTH AMERICAN MISSIONS BOARDone grant, 2017 · $63k
- RFREFUGE FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
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.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Love ones vision is to transform the lives of children and families in uganda through life-saving medical care, family preservation, and sharing the love of jesus christ
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Helping men, women and children by hosting educational conferences, facilitating healing and freedom through support groups, trauma recovery prayer ministry and licensed counseling appointmnts. they seek to redeem lives, restore families…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey Center for Safety and Healing and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Hunger Center. 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 26 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 120 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 MISSION OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds HOPE ALIVE INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds MY DAILY ARMOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA GOSPEL LEAGUE INC N AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL DISCIPLES ↗
- Who funds AUDIO SCRIPTURE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds 30 HEARTS ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE AKRON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EVANGELISM STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds Hope Meadows Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAY INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR LIFE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND GUARDIANS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE ONE MORE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Oasis of Hope Pregnancy & Parenting ↗
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: The Swagelok Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Glenn R & Alice V Boggess Memorial · W Paul Mills & Thora J Mills Memorial · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation
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 Mpb 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.
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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