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Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250
Granted FY2018
1
Grants FY2018
1
Organizations funded FY2018
0%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$250
Largest grant, FY2018
$250
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 0% of the organizations Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20181$2500%
FY20179$132kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$50kHealth$37kRecreation & Sports$22kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$7kHuman Services$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Willard Library$50,25021%
The Arc of Calhoun County$25,00013%
Cir Inc$15,00012%
Humane Society of South Central Mi$10,00012%
Art Center of Battle Creek$7,00013%
Fountain Clinic$6,00011%
Charitable Union$6,00010%
Grace Health Inc$6,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWillard Library: $50,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Arc of Calhoun County: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCir Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHumane Society of South Central Mi: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetArt Center of Battle Creek: $7,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFountain Clinic: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCharitable Union: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGrace Health Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Battle Creek Community FoundationMI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Miller Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Marshall United Way · Feldpausch Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston

How much does Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston give?
Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston reported 1 grants totaling $250 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (28%), Recreation & Sports (17%).
Who are Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Willard Library ($50k), The Arc of Calhoun County ($25k), Cir Inc ($15k).
Does Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Battle Creek Community Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, Miller Foundation.
Where is Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston based?
Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston is based in MI.

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 9 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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