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Bal & Tina Maraj Family Foundation at a glance

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Bal & Tina Maraj Family 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$12kPhilanthropy$6kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,020
Median grant
10
States reached
$601k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$5,000
PROVIDENCE ST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$3,551
PLACENTIAL FOUNDERS SOCIETY$2,500
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$2,000
UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$2,000
CARITAS OF AUSTIN$2,000
ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSIPITAL$1,550
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,044
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$1,029
CITY OF HOPE$1,022
SHRINERS HOSPITALS$1,020
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,012
ASPCA$1,000
MARCH OF DIMES FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
AZ
TN
DC
OK
GA
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 5 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
1

Total granted

$14k
$532

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PS
    PROVIDENCE ST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k
  • PF
    PLACENTIA FOUNDERS SOCIETY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SG
    SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k

Funded once

  • BO
    BARKS OF LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE AN PLACEMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $532
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
9
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Placentia Founders Society. 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
3/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROVIDENCE ST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $4,601 · OtherPROVIDENCE ST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,529 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $2,000 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINST JUDE RESEARCH HOSIPITAL: $1,550 · OtherST JUDE RESEARCH HOSIPITALRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $1,029 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESCITY OF HOPE: $1,022 · OtherCITY OF HOPESHRINERS HOSPITALS: $1,020 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALSBARKS OF LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE AN PLACEMENT: $532 · Other+2 more: $1,000 · Other+2 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL C…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIET…PLACENTIA FOUNDERS SOCIETY: $4,500 · Arts & CulturePLACENTIA FOUN…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,044 · InternationalWORLD CENT…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · InternationalMEDECINS S…Save The Children Federation Inc: $500 · InternationalSave The C…FEED THE CHILDREN INC: $250 · InternationalFEED THE C…UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2,000 · Human ServicesUNITED FR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,012 · Human ServicesAmerican …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,500 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FULLERTON INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$15,283Health$7,000Arts & Culture$4,500International$3,294Human Services$3,012Animals$1,500Youth Development$1,000

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 budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLACENTIA FOUNDERS SOCIETY: $4,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,012 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FULLERTON INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bal & Tina Maraj Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bal & Tina Maraj Family 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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