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John C Markey Charitable Fund at a glance

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John C Markey Charitable Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$315kReligion$245kEducation$240kHuman Services$200kHealth$200kHousing & Shelter$120kEnvironment$60kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$150,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY$60,000
GRACE BASED FILMS$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$40,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MD
DC
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$915k · 7 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$915k
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+3%

Still filing today

86%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalReligionHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +81%
  • SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +23%
  • MS
    MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • DC
    DEFIANCE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • CR
    CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • BD
    BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +66%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Rescue Committee INC: $290,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Comm…ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 · InternationalASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DE…Williams County Family YMCA: $200,000 · OtherWilliams County Family…BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherBERKELEY DIVINITY SCHO…TULANE UNIVERSTY: $10,000 · OtherTHE SAINT JAMES SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherPRATHAM USA: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · OtherDEFIANCE COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationDEFIANCE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL …MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationMARLBOROUGH SCHOOLUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationGRACE BASED FILMS INC: $160,000 · ReligionGRACE BASED FILM…Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc: $45,000 · ReligionEpiscopal Preach…HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CAN…SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterSANTA BAR…GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 · Environment
International$315,000Other$280,000Education$260,000Religion$205,000Health$150,000Housing & Shelter$120,000Environment$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $290,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE BASED FILMS INC: $160,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $120,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDEFIANCE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Preaching Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetBERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT JAMES SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John C Markey Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C Markey Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to John C Markey Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to John C Markey Charitable Fund 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.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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