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David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family 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.

$29k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
49
Grants FY2024
48
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$208
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,200
Organizations funded a year
44 to 48
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$478k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving48$27k6%
FY202348$22k44%
FY202244$20kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$20kReligion$20kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$13kCivil Rights$7kFood & Nutrition$3kEducation$2kInternational$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
SD
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KS
TN
DC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc$15,20030%
Anti-Defamation League$5,74330%
Food Bank of the Rockies$2,58830%
Aurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center Inc$2,34020%
Marlene F Landy Cancer Foundation$1,5403n/a
University of Colorado Foundation$1,50030%
Judaism Your Way$1,28220%
Shalom Park$1,16530%
Lotus Network Fka Intl$86030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$70820%
Experience Camps$52510%
Denver Rescue Mission$52020%
She Angels Foundation$50010%
Dhamma Dena Inc$5001n/a
Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc$41620%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$31030%
The Kempe Foundation$30830%
Birthright Israel Foundation$30430%
Bessies Hope$30010%
Pink Aid Inc$25810%
Colorado Symphony Association$23420%
Colorado Center for the Blind$20820%
Hospice of Metro Denver Inc$20820%
Denver Art Museum$20420%
National Park Foundation$20010%
Volunteers of America Inc$1543n/a
Reach Out and Read Colorado$10420%
Share Our Strength$10310%
Temple Sinai$1001n/a
Feed the Children Inc$10010%
Supporters of Children$1001n/a
St Josephs Indian School$501n/a
Denver Dumb Friends League$2610%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Service of Colorado Inc: $15,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $5,743 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $2,588 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAurora Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center Inc: $2,340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJudaism Your Way: $1,282 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShalom Park: $1,165 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLotus Network Fka Intl: $860 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $708 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetExperience Camps: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShe Angels Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Public Media Inc: $416 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kempe Foundation: $308 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $304 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBessies Hope: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPink Aid Inc: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Symphony Association: $234 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Center for the Blind: $208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Metro Denver Inc: $208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out and Read Colorado: $104 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $26 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Humphreys Foundation · The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Striker Foundation · The Anna and John J Sie Foundation · The Chotin Family Foundation

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.

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About David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation

How much does David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation give?
David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $29,458 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 48 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (11%), Religion (11%), Health (8%).
Who are David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($15k), Anti-Defamation League ($6k), Food Bank of the Rockies ($3k).
Does David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
Where is David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation based?
David and Peggy Gordon Marks Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 70 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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