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Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18M
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2020
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100% of Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Hamilton Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$5,700,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$9,075,000
States reached, FY2021
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$20MHealth$500kHuman Services$200k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community First Solutions$500,00014%
Young Women's Christian Association of Hamilton Ohio Inc$100,00017%
Great Miami Valley YMCA$100,00011%

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.

Hamilton Community FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati 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.

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About Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation

How much does Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation give?
Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $17,900,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (97%), Health (2%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Community First Solutions ($500k), Young Women's Christian Association of Hamilton Ohio Inc ($100k), Great Miami Valley YMCA ($100k).
Does Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum 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 Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hamilton Community Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
Where is Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation based?
Joseph L & Sarah S Marcum Foundation is based in IL.

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 6 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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