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Marie Christine Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$565k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$360k
Largest
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 2024.

Education$6.6MYouth Development$200kHealth$170kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $48
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
  • $250k+1 grant · $360k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WHEELER SCHOOL$360,000
SHADY SIDE ACADEMY$105,000
SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER$40,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$20,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
SCHH$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR$10,000
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS$48
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $15k → 9%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

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 9 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$6.9M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+41%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SS
    SHADY SIDE ACADEMY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +62%
  • TW
    THE WHEELER SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +48%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • FI
    FILLING IN THE BLANKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SC
    SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Annie Wright Schools

Annie wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative and responsible citizens for a global society.

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6
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
7
New West Charter School

The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…

Education
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
10
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
11
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
12
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Miguel Education Center; the most unlike its peers is Shady Side Academy. 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 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $5,206,600 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $1,330,000 · EducationTHE WHEELER SCHOOL+2 more: $40,000 · EducationSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $200,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $40,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR: $40,000 · OtherSCHH: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $20,079 · OtherJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $80,000 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $15,000 · Human Services
Education$6,576,600Other$320,079Philanthropy$90,000Human Services$15,000

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 budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $5,206,600 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $1,330,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

  • Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABC INC OF NEW CANAAN ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 14 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.

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