Illinois · Private foundation
Edward and Shirley Marx 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $623k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $83k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $35k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $48k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Business Development Center | $83,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jk Community Farm | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Moving and Storage Institute | $20,000 | 2 | 6% |
| American Trucking Associations Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Beginnings Church of Chicago | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albany Park Community Center Inc | $14,705 | 1 | n/a |
| The Service Club of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Business Development Center | $83,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jk Community Farm | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Moving and Storage Institute | $20,000 | 2 | 6% |
| American Trucking Associations Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Beginnings Church of Chicago | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albany Park Community Center Inc | $14,705 | 1 | n/a |
| The Service Club of Chicago | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Expanding Borders | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Misericordia Home | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Women Helping Women | $450 | 1 | 0% |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $150 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Paws Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Grant Park Neighborhood Association Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation
- How much does Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation give?
- Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $83,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (35%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Women's Business Development Center ($83k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($25k), Jk Community Farm ($25k).
- Does Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward and Shirley Marx 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 Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation based?
- Edward and Shirley Marx Foundation is based in IL.
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