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Albert C & Bertha P Markstein Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$119kPhilanthropy$59kHealth$52kEducation$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kEnvironment$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$623k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT$15,000
WYOMING COLORADO CHILDREN'S SOCIETY$15,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FO$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$197k · 9 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$197k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+46%

Still filing today

56%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitHealthAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +64%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +112%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HC
    HISPANIC COMM AFF COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • HF
    Hope For The Warriors
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -28%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Special Ops Survivors

Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…

Human Services
2
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
3
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
4
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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5
America's Warrior Partnership Inc

The mission of the corporation is to support and partner with veteran- centric communities by providing a proven model, mentorship, training, consulting, software, and resources in order to advance comprehensive and holistic warrior care…

Human Services
6
Soldiers of America
Human Services
7
Lead the Way Fund Inc

Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…

Human Services
8
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
9
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
10
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
11
Uso Foundation

The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.

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12
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WYOMING COLORADO CHILDREN'S SOCIETY: $35,000 · OtherWYOMING COLORADO CHILDREN'S SOCIETYUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FO: $20,000 · OtherUCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $19,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONHISPANIC COMM AFF COUNCIL: $14,500 · OtherHISPANIC COMM AFF COUNCILUCSF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherUCSF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $58,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF …+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJ…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitWYOMING CHILDRENS SOCIETY: $20,000 · HealthTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $6,000 · Animals
Other$101,500Philanthropy$60,000Human Services$51,000Education$21,000Public Benefit$20,000Health$20,000Animals$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $58,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $43,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING CHILDRENS SOCIETY: $20,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING CHILDRENS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albert C & Bertha P Markstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert C & Bertha P Markstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Albert C & Bertha P Markstein Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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