· Private foundation
John & Mary R Markle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $789k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE | $1,500,000 |
| UNIDOSUS | $225,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC | $214,114 |
| ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVES FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS INC DBA MISIDE WEALTH | $75,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $75,000 |
| CONCILIO DE ORGANIZACIONES HISPANAS | $75,000 |
| CICP FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR WORKFORCE EXCELLENCE INC | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% 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
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- UUNIDOSUS4× · 2022–2025 · $625k · revenue +27%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $535k · revenue +159%
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $375k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- EUEUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $100k
SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +4%
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +499%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The center for employment security education and research (ceser) is the leading education, research and information technology center, focusing on workforce development and unemployment insurance issues.
The business-higher education forum is a national network that connects corporate and college leaders to identify and build the talent solutions that address priority talent needs for employers and the american economy. corporate…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.
The national association of state workforce agencies (naswa) mission is to enhance the state workforce agencies' ability to accomplish their goals, statutory roles and responsibilities.
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Eno Transportation Foundation. 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 50 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 34 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 JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF SPANISH SPEAKING ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Area Urban League ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Center for a New American Security Inc ↗
- Who funds MI CASA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENERGY OFFICIALS ↗
- Who funds ENO TRANSPORTATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Workforce Excellence Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CICP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
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: Unidosus · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 John & Mary R Markle 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.
- Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% 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.