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Making Their Mark Foundation a Charitable Trust

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.

$630k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$155kInternational$105k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,401
Median grant
4
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY FOUNDATION$300,000
FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS$100,000
MYRIAD USA$54,734
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS$50,401
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS$50,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$50,000
MADOWELL$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MOMA: $93k → 10%ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM: $73k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM: $10k → 17%FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $80k → 15%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $100k → 9%MADOWELL: $25k → 7%UC BERKELEY: $35k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MOMA: $73k → 10%HAMMER MUSEUM: $35k → 14%STUDIO MUSEUM OF HARLEM: $58k → 17%FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%SAN FRANCISCO MOMA: $40k → 10%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%SF HOST COMMITTEE: $25k → 10%STUDIO MUSEUM OF HARLEM: $14k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $50k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $50k → 17%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS: $50k → 17%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS: $50k → 17%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.
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$660k · 4 repeat orgs$800k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$660k
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+31%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $205k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue -46%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $155k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SA
    SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • AH
    ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $73k
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $58k · revenue +53%
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
3
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
6
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
7
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
10
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
11
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

—
12
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Federation of Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $205,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM: $73,000 · OtherARMAND HAMMER MUSEUMUC BERKELEY: $35,000 · OtherMADOWELL: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $13,679 · OtherTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $100,401 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS…SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ART MUSEUMMuseum of Modern Art: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $58,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND…THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY A…+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC: $200,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF NEW CURATOR…MYRIAD USA INC: $104,734 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $155,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …
Other$676,679Arts & Culture$428,401International$304,734Education$155,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $104,734 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $100,401 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $58,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Making Their Mark Foundation a Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Making Their Mark Foundation a Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Oregon Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Making Their Mark Foundation a Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Making Their Mark Foundation a Charitable Trust 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 17 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.

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