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Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Housing & Shelter$135kHealth$75kRecreation & Sports$75kHuman Services$75kArts & Culture$60kEducation$50kPhilanthropy$30kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ALI FORNEY CENTER INC$50,000
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING$50,000
OAXACA LENDING LIBRARY FOUNDATION$50,000
SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC$35,000
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK$35,000
THE FUND INC$30,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER$25,000
PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP$25,000
COALITION FOR HOMELESS INC$25,000
GREENWICH HOUSE INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMPHILL VILLAGE COPAKE: $50k → 11%OAXACA LENDING LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING: $50k → 16%GREENWICH HOUSE INC: $25k → 17%EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT: $50k → 28%CAMPHILL VILLAGE COPAKE: $25k → 11%CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK: $35k → 16%GREENWICH HOUSE: $25k → 17%EAST SIDE HOUSE SETTLEMENT: $25k → 28%CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK: $25k → 16%ALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $50k → 17%CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING: $25k → 16%SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC: $35k → 17%SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC: $25k → 17%COALITION FOR HOMELESS INC: $25k → 17%THE FUND INC: $30k → 17%GODS LOVE WE DELIVER: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$395k · 6 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$395k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Recreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • ES
    EAST SIDE HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +9%
  • SF
    SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +50%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • OL
    OAXACA LENDING LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -2% · 29% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Transitional Services of New York Inc

The agency operates community residences and supported housing programs and provides other outpatient, vocational rehabilitation & clinical services to individuals with mental illness.

Human Services
2
Odyssey House Inc

The organization's mission is to provide comprehensive and innovative services to the broadest range of metro new york's population who abuse drugs, alcohol and/or have mental illness; to provide high-quality, holistic treatment impacting…

Health
3
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
4
Apropos Housing Opportunities and Mgmt Enterprises Inc

A-home is a not-for-profit organization that strengthens northern westchester neighborhoods by providing residents a safe and affordable place to live.

Housing & Shelter
5
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is dedicated to helping those in need who live, work, or go to school on Manhattan's East Side, primarily the Upper East Side, and to improving the quality of life for all individuals and families in its…

Human Services
6
Independent Living Association

The organization's mission is to provide programs, care, services, habilitation and social activities, in consultation with the nys office for people with developmental disabilities (opwdd), which serves the needs of developmentally and/or…

Human Services
7
Cidny - Independent Living Services Inc

Home care services (under contract with various mco organizations)

Community Improvement
8
Opengate Inc

Opengate is committed to supporting individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, including those who are behaviorally challenged, to develop and express their unique potential. opengate, through its residential and day…

Human Services
9
Independent Living Inc

To provide services to disabled individuals to enable them to live independently.

Human Services
10
Access Supports for Living Inc

Our mission is to help people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible, and our first priority is those who live with the challenges associated with behavioral health issues and developmental disabilities.

Human Services
11
Daughters of Sarah Housing Company Inc

The mission of the daughters of sarah housing company, inc. is to enhance the quality of life , assure the safety and dignity, and foster the independence of those we serve , through residential, personal care, health and other services,…

Human Services
12
Care for the Homeless

Care for the homeless fights homelessness by delivering high-quality and client-centered health care, human services and shelter to homeless individuals and families, and by advocating for policies to ameliorate, prevent and end…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Services for the Underserved Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oaxaca Lending Library Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC — $60,000 · OtherSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INCGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $50,000 · OtherGREENWICH HOUSE INCTHE FUND INC — $30,000 · OtherTHE FUND INCCOALITION FOR HOMELESS INC — $25,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR HOMELESS INCPROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC — $25,000 · OtherPROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INCEAST SIDE HOUSE INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE HOUS…CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING INC — $75,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF FRIE…CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR …ALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterALI FORNE…OAXACA LENDING LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationOAXACA LE…GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$265,000Recreation & Sports$75,000Health$75,000Arts & Culture$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Education$50,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOR THE DYING INC — $75,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetSERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK — $60,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGREENWICH HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOAXACA LENDING LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

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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 Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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