· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARKS FUND | $15,000 |
| THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2022 · $31k · revenue +128%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +44%- VVVALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $7k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- UPUNIVERSITY PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- HPHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +165%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARK ROSS MONTESSORI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL REFLECTIONS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Colorado Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David Mitchell Marcus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Mitchell Marcus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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