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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.

$415k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$787kHuman Services$705kEducation$225kHealth$210kInternational$205kCrime & Legal$145kFood & Nutrition$140kYouth Development$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GORDON CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$40,000
DWELLING PLACE$30,000
FC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED$25,000
LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATIONS$25,000
M & L FOUNDATION$20,000
RESTORATION MINISTRIES$20,000
JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL$20,000
ARRIVE MINISTRIES$20,000
HOPE ACADEMY$20,000
CARING NETWORK$20,000
NAOMI'S HOUSE$20,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$20,000
OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WAY TO GROW$15,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED: $25k → 10%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%FC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED: $20k → 10%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10k → 14%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%DWELLING PLACE: $30k → 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $10k → 14%DWELLING PLACE: $20k → 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $20k → 7%DWELLING PLACE: $20k → 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DWELLING PLACE: $20k → 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DWELLING PLACE: $20k → 7%DWELLING PLACE: $20k → 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE DWELLING PLACE: $20k → 7%EMERGE MOTHER'S ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $20k → 11%EMERGE MOTHER'S ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $20k → 11%EMERGE MOTHER'S ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $15k → 11%EMERGE MOTHER'S ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $15k → 11%EMERGE MOTHER'S ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $15k → 11%EMERGE MOTHER'S ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $10k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $15k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $15k → 11%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

MN
IL
MA
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 32 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
9

Total granted

$2.6M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+110%

Still filing today

81%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalReligionHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GT
    Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $280k · revenue +12%
  • TD
    The Dwelling Place
    7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +311%
  • LT
    Leadership Transformation Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CN
    Care Netgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +110%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +32%
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
Minnesota Family Council

Minnesota family council (mfc) is a non-profit christian organization that is dedicated to strengthening minnesota families by advancing biblical principles in the public arena, for the glory of the lord jesus christ and the good of…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
4
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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5
Midwest Challenge Inc

Sharing the gospel while providing hope and transformation.

Health
6
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
7
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
8
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
9
Emerge Global Inc

Biblical support of single moms. To encourage and support single moms to thrive and not just survive.

Human Services
10
Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners

Interfaith outreach mobilizes human, financial, and in-kind resources to respond to unmet immediate needs and support individuals and families to achieve on-going stability.

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11
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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12
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The M & L Foundation Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Dwelling Place: $150,000 · Human ServicesThe Dwelling PlaceOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $145,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIE…WAY TO GROW: $115,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWGOOD IN THE 'HOOD: $100,000 · Human ServicesGOOD IN THE 'HOODEMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $60,000 · Human ServicesEMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMYPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATIONFC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED INC+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesARRIVE MINISTRIES: $100,000 · OtherARRIVE MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE MOODY CHURCH: $85,000 · OtherTHE MOODY CHURCHCOMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATIONAL: $82,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATI…MESA GLOBAL: $50,000 · OtherMESA GLOBALAnselm House: $50,000 · OtherAnselm HouseACES: $45,000 · OtherACESJUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL: $105,000 · OtherJUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTE…NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $30,000 · Other+11 more: $132,500 · Other+11 moreGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $280,000 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theol…HOPE ACADEMY INC: $130,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $75,000 · EducationEAST SIDE LEARNING C…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $140,000 · InternationalFEED MY STAR…ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $60,000 · InternationalONEVILLAGE P…Redeem International: $50,000 · InternationalRedeem Inter…INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $45,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONA…Leadership Transformation Inc: $145,000 · ReligionMobile Hope: $50,000 · ReligionRESTORATION MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $20,000 · ReligionCARING NETWORK NFP: $120,000 · HealthCHANGING GAITS INC: $30,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $10,000 · HealthThe Banyan Foundation: $70,000 · Community ImprovementTHE M & L FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$685,000Other$764,500Education$495,000International$295,000Religion$215,000Health$160,000Community Improvement$108,000

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 budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc: $280,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dwelling Place: $150,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetLeadership Transformation Inc: $145,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $145,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $130,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCARING NETWORK NFP: $120,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $115,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL: $105,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetGOOD IN THE 'HOOD: $100,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetARRIVE MINISTRIES: $100,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER: $75,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY: $60,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetRedeem International: $50,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMobile Hope: $50,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAnselm House: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED INC: $45,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE M & L FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGING GAITS INC: $30,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCare Net: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP AT YOUR DOOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Transformation Inc ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING NETWORK NFP ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE JUSTICE ADVOCATES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds GOOD IN THE 'HOOD ↗
  • Who funds ARRIVE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EMERGE MOTHERS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Redeem International ↗
  • Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
  • Who funds Anselm House ↗
  • Who funds FC GOOD WORKS UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE M & L FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING GAITS INC ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Care Net ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR ↗
  • Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOURCE MN INC ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Otto Bremer TrustServant FoundationWem FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Catholic Community Fo…The US Charitable Gif…Ch Robinson Worldwide…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL23.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Otto Bremer Trust · Servant Foundation · Wem Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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.

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 · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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

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    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 44 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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