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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
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$791kEducation$518kHuman Services$301kYouth Development$55kCivil Rights$45kReligion$40kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $390,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $429,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
  • $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
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
Change Summer Inc$10,000
University of Pennsylvania$10,000
University of Pennsylvania$10,000
Columbia Law School$10,000
UJA Federation of NY$5,000
BronxWorks$5,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$819k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

$1.0M
$767k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+2%

Still filing today

85%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
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

  • 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 · $100k
  • TB
    THE BASS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -25%
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.

03Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 70 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN NEW JERSEY: $501,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN NEW JERSEYPILLAR CARE CONTINUUM: $118,000 · HealthPILLAR CARE CONTINUUMSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · HealthSAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTERPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $54,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United …+7 more: $19,770 · HealthNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC: $229,000 · OtherNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN IN…The University of Texas at Austin: $81,000 · OtherThe University of Texas at Austi…Columbia Law School: $50,000 · OtherColumbia Law SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania: $20,000 · OtherOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $20,000 · Other+32 more: $129,710 · Other+32 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$792,770Other$554,710Education$340,250Human Services$68,550Community Improvement$60,500Youth Development$45,000Arts & Culture$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 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: $54,000 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 budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetACCESS BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBURN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetISRAEL HEART2HEART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1,000 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250 over 1y, 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.

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.

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

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.
04Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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