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David Mitchell Marcus 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$325k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations David Mitchell Marcus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyInternationalReligionAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$30k17%
FY202310$20k40%
FY202211$23k27%
FY202123$24k52%
FY202016$22k38%
FY201911$68kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$85kPhilanthropy$64kRecreation & Sports$35kArts & Culture$11kHealth$10kReligion$5kInternational$4kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
CA
CO
NC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of David Mitchell Marcus Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Educational Foundation Inc$31,02230%
Hockaday School$20,00030%
Mark Ross Montessori Foundation$15,5002n/a
Duke University$12,40060%
Valley View Hospital Foundation$6,50040%
Emory University$6,00060%
Highland Park Isd Education Foundation$2,50010%
The Clear Fund$1,50010%
Evidence Action$1,50010%
Pastoral Reflections Institute$1,50030%
Wilkinson Center$1,00010%
University of Michigan$1,00010%
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc$1,00010%
Aspen Valley Land Trust$75020%
Iglesia Cristo la Roca$5001n/a
The Aspen Institute Inc$25010%
Roaring Fork Pickleball Association$20010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David Mitchell Marcus Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Educational Foundation Inc: $31,022 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHockaday School: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $12,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetValley View Hospital Foundation: $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEmory University: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Isd Education Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clear Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvidence Action: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPastoral Reflections Institute: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilkinson Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Animal Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Valley Land Trust: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Pickleball Association: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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 15.

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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to David Mitchell Marcus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David Mitchell Marcus 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.

About David Mitchell Marcus Foundation

How much does David Mitchell Marcus Foundation give?
David Mitchell Marcus Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $30,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does David Mitchell Marcus Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Philanthropy (29%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
Who are David Mitchell Marcus Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Educational Foundation Inc ($31k), Hockaday School ($20k), Mark Ross Montessori Foundation ($16k).
Does David Mitchell Marcus Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David Mitchell Marcus 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 Mitchell Marcus Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is David Mitchell Marcus Foundation based?
David Mitchell Marcus 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 38 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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