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Marguerite Delany Hark Foundation at a glance

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Marguerite Delany Hark 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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.7MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MEnvironment$610kCommunity Improvement$392kRecreation & Sports$305kYouth Development$220kArts & Culture$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.9M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$184M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500,000
FELLOWSHIP HOUSING$500,000
EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE$333,333
VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION$300,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY$300,000
HOME$135,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$130,000
CONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST$125,000
ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH$100,000
VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM$100,000
NIGHT MINISTRY$75,000
VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION$66,667
WINGS PROGRAM INC$50,000
HOME OF THE SPARROW$50,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF CHIIND$50,000
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 (FY23–24, $863k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%EAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE: $333k → 7%VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM: $100k → 7%VAIL VETERANS PROGRAM: $60k → 7%NIGHT MINISTRY: $75k → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $35k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $40k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $50k → 14%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%THE CRADLE FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CTR: $35k → 14%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
WY
IN
CA
CO
VA
TN
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 26 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
24

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • FH
    Fellowship Housing Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +308%
  • HO
    HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $170k · revenue +50%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +701%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAGLE COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • OR
    Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +28%
  • BW
    Big Waters Land Trust Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +70%
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.

04Its 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
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
2
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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6
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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7
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…

Health
8
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
9
Illinois Health and Hospital Association

To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.

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10
Vail Health Services

Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.

Health
11
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
12
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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

50 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. 50 of the 68 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $300,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAGLE COUNTY: $250,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAGLE COUNTYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $235,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $170,000 · OtherCONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $125,000 · Other+36 more: $1,486,000 · Other+36 moreFellowship Housing Corporation: $1,125,000 · Housing & ShelterFellowship Housing C…WINGS PROGRAM INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterWINGS PROGRAM INCDEBORAH'S PLACE: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACEHome of the Sparrow Inc: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow …+2 more: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $550,000 · HealthVAIL HEALTH SE…Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $250,000 · HealthOrthopaedic Re…La Rabida Children's Hospital: $80,000 · HealthLa Rabida Chil…HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $50,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $35,000 · HealthEAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE: $333,333 · Human ServicesEAGLE RIVER …VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesVAIL VETERAN…THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MI…The Cradle Foundation: $70,000 · Human ServicesThe Cradle F…Howard Area Community Center: $70,000 · Human ServicesHoward Area …CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $50,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR I…LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $40,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $391,667 · Community ImprovementROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $305,000 · Recreation & SportsGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $160,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community Trust: $35,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,616,000Housing & Shelter$1,450,000Health$1,015,000Human Services$863,333Community Improvement$391,667Recreation & Sports$305,000Philanthropy$195,000

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 budgetFellowship Housing Corporation: $1,125,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $391,667 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEAGLE RIVER VALLEY CHILDCARE: $333,333 over 1y, 35% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $305,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES AND MAINTENANCE FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $170,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CHICAGO: $80,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cradle Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAKELAND AREA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE CENTER OF HOPE: $35,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITING VOICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLINT CREEK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION: $25,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSTILLMAN NATURE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $10,000 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.

George M Eisenberg Fo…The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationJohn D and Catherine …Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…United Way of Metropo…The Rhoades FoundationPatrick and Anna M Cu…Andrew and Alice Fisc…WP & HB White Foundat…The Service Club of C…
George M Eisenberg Foundation for CharitiesIL24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Rhoades Foundation · Patrick and Anna M Cudahy Fund · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago

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 Marguerite Delany Hark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marguerite Delany Hark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Marguerite Delany Hark Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marguerite Delany Hark 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 68 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 $6.0M 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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