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March Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$505k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$5.3MPhilanthropy$2.6MHuman Services$645kHealth$427kYouth Development$324kEducation$135kFood & Nutrition$116kScience & Tech$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $510k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY$505,000
KERAKXT$350,000
CAFE MOMENTUM$255,000
TACA$250,000
NEXUS$210,000
DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER$200,000
TRUSTED WORLD$100,000
SHUMLA$45,000
UNDERMAIN THEATRE$27,500
JUNIOR PLAYERS$25,000
GEORGE W BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CENTER$20,000
SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE$7,500
UNDERMAIN THEATRE$7,500
SOUL REP THEATRE CO$7,500
KITCHEN DOG THEATER$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $100k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $200k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $100k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD: $20k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $250 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 50 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
35

Total granted

$8.2M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+40%

Still filing today

66%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +7%
  • KD
    KITCHEN DOG THEATER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $572k · revenue +28% · 81% of their budget
  • NR
    Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated
    7× · 2019–2025 · $492k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER - CABARET
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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2
Uptown Players Inc

The mission of Uptown Players is to present professional theatre that meets a rising demand in the LGBTQ+ community for audiences to see their life experiences Represented on stage. Our diverse productions represent the LGBTQ+ community…

Arts & Culture
3
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc

We are a vibrant cultural hub that provides, operates and activates exceptional spaces for artists, artistic organizations and our community.

Philanthropy
4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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5
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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7
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
10
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
12
Portland Center Stage

Portland center stage's mission is to create transcendent theatrical experiences and community programs that break down the barriers separating people. we support our community in celebrating the full scope of humanity, appreciating…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is The Cedars Union. 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

59 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. 59 of the 97 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TACA - THE ARTS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1,195,000 · OtherTACA - THE ARTS COMMUNITY ALLIANCEUNITED WAY FOUNDATION: $1,161,662 · OtherUNITED WAY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $800,000 · OtherUNITED WAY METROPOLITAN DALLASIndividual grant recipient: $720,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE UNITED WAY INC: $505,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY INCKERAKXT: $350,000 · OtherKERAKXTSHUMLA: $266,000 · OtherKERA RADIO NORTH TEXAS: $240,000 · OtherDALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER CAPITAL FUND: $227,500 · Other+53 more: $695,850 · Other+53 moreDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $1,105,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER…KITCHEN DOG THEATER: $572,175 · Arts & CultureKITCHEN DOG THEATERTACA INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTACA INC+12 more: $211,100 · Arts & Culture+12 moreNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $492,000 · HealthTWLOHA INC: $32,150 · Health+4 more: $3,500 · HealthTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $420,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,250 · Human ServicesCAFE MOMENTUM: $290,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $125,402 · EducationTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $6,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,161,012Arts & Culture$2,138,275Health$527,650Human Services$424,250Youth Development$290,000Education$141,402Philanthropy$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC: $1,105,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetKITCHEN DOG THEATER: $572,175 over 8y, 81% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $505,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNexus Recovery Center Incorporated: $492,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $420,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $290,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTACA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $125,402 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERMAIN THEATRE: $63,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetSOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $42,500 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetHIGH-TECH HIGH HEELS: $40,000 over 8y, 46% of budgetSECOND THOUGHT THEATRE: $37,500 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetTWLOHA INC: $32,150 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $32,150 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $17,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAUSTIN FARM SANCTUARY AKA FULLER-WIGGS FARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $9,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcho Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetOUT TO PASTURE ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $3,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Access Project: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Veg: $2,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CEDARS UNION: $2,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSmalls Live Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKICKSTAND COMEDY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CHORALE INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DALLAS CHILDRENS THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds KITCHEN DOG THEATER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
  • Who funds TACA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds UNDERMAIN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds HIGH-TECH HIGH HEELS ↗
  • Who funds SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR PLAYERS GUILD ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRY HAVOC THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN FARM SANCTUARY AKA FULLER-WIGGS FARMS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗

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.

Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…Taca IncDallas Center for the…The Eugene McDermott …The Dallas FoundationThe Hersh FoundationBen E Keith Foundatio…The Rosewood Foundati…The Addy FoundationHillcrest FoundationFichtenbaum Charitabl…
Texas Instruments FoundationTX33.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Taca Inc · Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Endowment Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Hersh Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · The Rosewood Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization March Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from March Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Kickstand Comedy: 5% of income from government
  • Community Cycling Center: 2% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to March Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to March Family Foundation 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 97 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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