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Marcus 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.

$429k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$791kEducation$518kHuman Services$301kYouth Development$55kCivil Rights$45kReligion$40kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $349,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $429,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Alternatives for Children$100,000
Uncommon Schools$50,000
The University of Texas at Austin$30,000
Pillar Care Continuum$25,000
Simon Wiesenthal Center$25,000
Alzar School Inc$20,000
Newark Academy$20,000
Brown University$15,000
Columbia Law School$10,000
Change Summer Inc$10,000
University of Pennsylvania$10,000
BRC Food Bank$5,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$5,000
UJA Federation of NY$5,000
BronxWorks$5,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$995k · 27 repeat orgs$758k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
34

Total granted

$995k
$717k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+2%

Still filing today

85%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $229k · revenue +15%
  • US
    UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +16%
  • PC
    PILLAR CARE CONTINUUM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN NEW JERSEY
    one grant, 2022 · $501k · revenue -13%
  • SB
    SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TB
    THE BASS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Making Gay History Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community FederationsCharter and Independent Sch…Developmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsProfessional Dance CompaniesClassical Music OrchestrasPublic School District Foun…Lgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Childhood Cancer SupportCommunity Hospital SystemsPregnancy Support Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,716

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN NEW JERSEY — $501,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN NEW JERSEYPILLAR CARE CONTINUUM — $118,000 · HealthPILLAR CARE CONTINUUMPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $53,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United…SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER+7 more — $19,770 · HealthNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $229,000 · OtherNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN IN…The University of Texas at Austin — $51,000 · OtherThe University of Texas at Austi…Columbia Law School — $50,000 · OtherColumbia Law SchoolOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $20,000 · Other+33 more — $139,210 · Other+33 moreUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC — $180,000 · EducationUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INCNEWARK ACADEMY — $104,750 · EducationNEWARK ACADEMYALZAR SCHOOL INC — $41,000 · EducationALZAR SCHOOL INC+4 more — $14,500 · EducationTHE BASS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC — $10,250 · Human ServicesISRAEL HEART2HEART INC — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $3,300 · Human ServicesBROWN UNIVERSITY — $60,500 · Community ImprovementCHANGE SUMMER INC — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMaking Gay History Inc — $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$741,770Other$514,210Education$340,250Human Services$68,550Community Improvement$60,500Youth Development$45,000Arts & Culture$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN NEW JERSEY — $501,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $229,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC — $180,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPILLAR CARE CONTINUUM — $118,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY — $104,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $60,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $53,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BASS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHANGE SUMMER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALZAR SCHOOL INC — $41,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaking Gay History Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $10,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS — $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetISRAEL HEART2HEART INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $1,770 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…Pinkerton FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Boston Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marcus Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marcus 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $470k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home