· Private foundation
The Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $5,000 |
| JARED BOX PROJECT | $3,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CLOSET | $1,000 |
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- LULEG UP FARM INC5× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +62%
- GKGOOD KARMA GARAGE2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +91%
- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK5× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TITOMTOD IDEAS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +24%
- IGINDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEMETERYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- LSLANCASTER SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -29%
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission of the second harvest food bank of northwest pennsylvania is to provide food to those in need within eleven counties of northwest pennsylvania while creating awareness and educating the community on the realities of hunger.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Provision of food for the needy
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…
To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
Children's services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Youth House Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keystone Human Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 LEG UP FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD KARMA GARAGE ↗
- Who funds THE JARED BOX PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TOMTOD IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASA BOARD VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Wish for Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEFF MUSSER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICE INC ↗
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: Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Trustmark Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Rettew Charitable Foundation Dba Make Your Mark 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.