· Private foundation
Marcum Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| VT ATHLETIC FUND | $25,000 |
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $12,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,850 |
| EAGLES NEST REGENERATION | $4,000 |
| VT FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,200 |
| DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| MOUNTAIN EMPIRE CC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RADFORD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP OF CH | $900 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE | $500 |
| BLACKSBURG SPORTS CLUB | $275 |
| RIVERVIEW CEMETERY FUND | $250 |
| P BUCKLEY MOSS SOCIETY | $225 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ENEAGLES NEST REGENERATION6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +240%
- BMBlacksburg Museum And Cultural Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +38%
- MCMONROE COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS5× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- UWUVA Wise Foundationone grant, 2021 · $1k
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +88%
- LLLAASERS LADYBUG SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
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.
To support the educational, scientific and charitable activities of virginia commonwealth university and related organizations.
To support and foster vcu health and vcu health sciences through philanthropy, stewardship, innovation, communication, and collaboration.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
The mission of the foundation is to assist, support and foster the activities and mission of the school of business at virginia commonwealth university. it solicits, manages and distributes assets to benefit programs in the school of…
The virginia athletics foundation, through its fund-raising efforts, strives to support a preeminent intercollegiate athletics program at the university of virginia by providing student-athletes theopportunity to achieve academic and…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The foundation supports the mission of the university of virginia school of engineering and applied science by leading efforts to build and sustain beneficial relationships and by raising, investing, managing and providing external private…
The university of virginia medical alumni association and medical school foundation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of students, housestaff, alumni and faculty of the uva school of medicine by creating opportunities for mentoring,…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES NEST REGENERATION ↗
- Who funds Blacksburg Museum And Cultural Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKSBURG SPORTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHRISTMAS STORE ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACKSBURG VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds LAASERS LADYBUG SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEARTS HELPING EACH ADOLESCENT REACH THEIR SPARK ↗
- Who funds P BUCKLEY MOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marcum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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