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Marin Economic Forum

The mef enables marin's economic stakeholders to collaborate on improving the county's economic vitality, focusing on marin's targeted industries, and enhancing social equity and protecting the environment.

$75k
Granted FY2021
3
Itemized grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
67%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$55k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$11k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 67% of the organizations Marin Economic Forum funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Crime & LegalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesReligion
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20213$55k67%
FY20201$37k100%
FY20191$40k100%
FY20172$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Housing & Shelter$52kEducation$50kEmployment$45kCrime & Legal$40kReligion$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Marin Economic Forum

How much does Marin Economic Forum give?
Marin Economic Forum reported 3 itemized grants totaling $55,000, out of $75,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Marin Economic Forum fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (26%), Education (25%), Employment (22%).
Who are Marin Economic Forum's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Dominican University of California ($50k), Bloom Marin ($45k), Project Avary Inc Alternative Ventures for at Risk Youth ($40k).
Does Marin Economic Forum fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marin Economic Forum?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Marin Economic Forum based?
Marin Economic Forum is based in CA.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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