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Marc & Friends Charitable Trust

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$369k
Granted FY2017
15
Grants FY2017
14
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$80,500
States reached, FY2017
3
Total assets, FY2017
$96k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Marc & Friends Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Civic Light Opera Association of Greater Pittsburgh$80,50011%
Pittsburgh Opera Inc$66,00011%
Rite Aid Healthy Futures$40,00010%
Temple Emanuel of South Hills$35,0001n/a
Pittsburgh Symphony Inc$25,00010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc$25,00010%
Allegheny Conference on Community Development$12,70010%
Point Park University$10,00010%
March of Dimes Inc$5,0001n/a
Delta Chi Educational Foundation$1,00010%
Homeless Children's Education Fund$75010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marc & Friends Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCivic Light Opera Association of Greater Pittsburgh: $80,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPittsburgh Opera Inc: $66,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRite Aid Healthy Futures: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPittsburgh Symphony Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAllegheny Conference on Community Development: $12,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPoint Park University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Chi Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Children's Education Fund: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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.

Richard King Mellon FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Marc & Friends Charitable Trust

How much does Marc & Friends Charitable Trust give?
Marc & Friends Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $369,450 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Marc & Friends Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Human Services (14%), Religion (9%).
Who are Marc & Friends Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Civic Light Opera Association of Greater Pittsburgh ($81k), Pittsburgh Opera Inc ($66k), Rite Aid Healthy Futures ($40k).
Does Marc & Friends Charitable Trust 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 Marc & Friends Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard King Mellon Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, Eqt Foundation.
Where is Marc & Friends Charitable Trust based?
Marc & Friends Charitable Trust is based in PA.

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 15 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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