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Anne and Paul Marcus Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Anne and Paul Marcus Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$937k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$630k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.7MEducation$4.2MHuman Services$392kScience & Tech$231kCommunity Improvement$172kArts & Culture$74kReligion$60kYouth Development$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
  • $250k+1 grant · $630k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXCEPTIONAL LIVES$630,000
WRITE THE WORLD$60,000
THE CHILDREN'S TRUST INC$57,500
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$35,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
THE PARK SCHOOL$20,000
JCC OF GREATER NEW HAVEN$20,000
NEW PROFIT$12,000
MSPCA-ANGELL$12,000
FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS$10,000
CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER$10,000
PARTNERSFORYOUTHWITHDISABILITIES$7,500
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$6,000
EDVESTORS$5,000
SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM$5,000
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, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $5k → 11%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $3k → 10%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $5k → 17%ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 17%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $6k → 8%ONE DEGREE: $1k → 10%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $5k → 17%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $3k → 8%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $500 → 10%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA: $250 → 8%VOLUNTEER VENTURES MA: $250 → 8%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $825k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $25k → 16%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $650k → 7%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $630k → 7%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $400k → 7%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $375k → 7%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $290k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $10k → 16%YOUTH VILLAGES: $3k → 8%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $8k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%SOCIAL INOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $3k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
LA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 47 repeat orgs$549k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
82

Total granted

$5.9M
$478k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+38%

Still filing today

79%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • EL
    EXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +131% · 85% of their budget
  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $415k · revenue +70%
  • CH
    CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $336k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOSTON'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • BI
    BIOBUS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +8%
  • SF
    SUSAN F SMITH CENTER FOR WOMEN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Boston Foundation Inc

As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…

Philanthropy
7
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
8
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
9
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
10
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
11
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
12
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Andalusia Foundation. 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

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 136 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/87
Grantees still filing
61/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,425,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCONCORD ACADEMY: $415,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $180,000 · Education+12 more: $326,207 · Education+12 moreEXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC: $3,870,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC+12 more: $111,500 · Human ServicesCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $336,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $237,515 · HealthBIOBUS INC: $51,414 · HealthCapital Caring Health: $25,000 · Health+12 more: $61,750 · HealthBOSTON'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $60,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $59,250 · OtherJCC OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $57,500 · OtherCOMMON IMPACT INC: $52,000 · OtherSUSAN F SMITH CENTER FOR WOMEN: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $26,250 · OtherEFORALL: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $22,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,500 · Other+71 more: $211,350 · OtherCHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $234,000 · Crime & LegalNEW PROFIT INC: $54,000 · Community ImprovementMETROMORPHOSIS: $37,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,750 · Community ImprovementBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFROM THE TOP INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$4,346,207Human Services$3,981,500Health$711,679Other$645,350Crime & Legal$234,000Community Improvement$92,750Arts & Culture$53,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC: $3,870,000 over 8y, 85% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,425,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $415,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $336,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $237,515 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST INC: $234,000 over 7y, 9.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $109,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWRITE THE WORLD INC: $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $59,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $54,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMON IMPACT INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBIOBUS INC: $51,414 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMETROMORPHOSIS: $37,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIRCHES SCHOOL INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFROM THE TOP INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRIAAN RESEARCH INITIATIVE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERMENT THROUGH INTEGRATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC: $10,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKISORO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPINE MANOR COLLEGE: $8,207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Explorers Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $3,000 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 EXCEPTIONAL LIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WRITE THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds BIOBUS INC ↗
  • Who funds METROMORPHOSIS ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRCHES SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds FROM THE TOP INC ↗
  • Who funds RIAAN RESEARCH INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERMENT THROUGH INTEGRATION INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Rockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationHighland Street Conne…Rockland Trust - Blue…The Klarman Family Fo…American Tower Corpor…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bain Capital Children…
Boston Foundation IncMA40.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anne and Paul Marcus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne and Paul Marcus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Children's Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hancock Shaker Village Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 136 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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