· Private foundation
Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GDI-Solutions Inc | $625,000 |
| Pratham USA | $350,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $350,000 |
| President And Fellows Of Harvard College | $250,000 |
| Young 1ove Foundation | $150,000 |
| Gyan Prakash Foundation | $100,000 |
| Central Square Foundation | $75,000 |
| Global School Leaders | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School | $15,000 |
| St Philip's Episcopal School | $15,000 |
| Reach Unlimited Inc | $15,000 |
| Ummeed Child Development Fund Inc | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($15M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($2.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($2.1M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PUPRATHAM USA7× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +20%
- IFINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +28%
- GSGLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×15 · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- TGTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +76%
- LFLUMINOS FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +108%
- AEAKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2018 · $121k · revenue -45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
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…
Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Tb alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of better, faster-acting and affordable tuberculosis drugs that are available to those who need them.
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
Development gateway (dg) creates tools and design processes that help collect, visualize, and use data for a more equitable world. for 20 years, we have built systems, dashboards, and tools to create more effective, open, and engaging…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Open Mind Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds GDI-SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SCHOOL LEADERS ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds YOUNG 1OVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS US INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINOS FUND ↗
- Who funds AKANKSHA EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REACH UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds UMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Rocket Learning Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRECISION DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HELP AID AFRICA ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE INDIA LLC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE MISSING ↗
- Who funds OPEN MIND PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Gates Foundation · Mulago Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Mastercard Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Rippleworks Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Douglas B Marshall Jr Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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