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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
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Grants FY2018
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States reached
$250
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2018 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLARD LIBRARY$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CHARITABLE UNION: $6k → 14%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.
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 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
Calhoun County Animal Center Inc

To retrieve, care for, shelter and adopt out cats and dogs in calhoun county michigan

Animals
2
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
3
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.

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4
Community Care Clinic of Rowan County Inc

Provides medical, dental and pharmaceutical care to uninsured or underserved rowan county residents using paid and volunteer medical professionals and skilled support staff.

Health
5
Community Clinic Inc

Empower patients to partner with staff for an unparalleled healthcare experience through integrated primary care services teams in a learning environment. we deliver high quality, affordable care to every patient during all stages of life.

Health
6
Christian Community Health Center

To provide high quality primary health care and related services to the community regardless of the ability to pay, in a manner which demonstrates in work and deed the love of Jesus Christ.

Philanthropy
7
Sunshine Community Health Center Inc

Sunshine community health center offers accessible, proactive, quality health care regardless of ability to pay.

Health
8
Christian Healthcare Centers Inc

Christian Healthcare Centers provides affordable, quality and comprehensive healthcare services to the body of Christ and the community.

Health
9
Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services
10
Loudoun Community Health Center Healthworks for Northern Virginia

To provide excellent and affordable medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare to those who have limited or no health insurance by being compassionate, culturally competent and accessible to all.

Health
11
Community of Hope Health Clinic

Provide free medical services for uninsured residents of shelby county, alabama.

Health
12
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fountain Clinic; the most unlike its peers is The Arc of Calhoun County. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLARD LIBRARY: $50,250 · EducationWILLARD LIBRARYTHE ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY: $25,000 · OtherTHE ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTYSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN AREA 16: $7,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN A…CIR INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCIR INCFOUNTAIN CLINIC: $6,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN C…GRACE HEALTH INC: $6,000 · HealthGRACE HEAL…HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $10,000 · AnimalsART CENTER OF BATTLE CREEK: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCHARITABLE UNION: $6,000 · Human Services
Education$50,250Other$32,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Health$12,000Animals$10,000Arts & Culture$7,000Human Services$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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    How do I get to Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston?

    Find your warmest path to Marcus Martin Farley and Mable Ston 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 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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