Skip to content
Foundation Dossiers

Connecticut · Private foundation

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 FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$8.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Side House Inc$75,00020%
Circle of Friends for the Dying Inc$75,000234%
Services for the Underserved Inc$60,00020%
Center for Photography at Woodstock$60,00023%
Greenwich House Inc$50,00020%
Ali Forney Center Inc$50,00010%
Oaxaca Lending Library Foundation$50,000129%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$25,00010%
Project Guardianship Inc$25,00011%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

Compare Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders

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.

About Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $450,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (23%), Health (13%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: East Side House Inc ($75k), Circle of Friends for the Dying Inc ($75k), Services for the Underserved Inc ($60k).
Does Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Mae and Mitchell Marcus Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Mae and Mitchell Marcus’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home