· Private foundation
Marina Kellen French 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Marina Kellen French Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Marina Kellen French Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $1,600,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $356,000 |
| THE KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION | $145,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $105,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MOMA | $10,000 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF KUNST HISTORCHE | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHANGHAI MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| THE BRICK CHURCH WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2023 · $9.8M · revenue +58%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $4.0M · revenue +6%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL4× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +239%
Funded once
- MPMOMA PS1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTERone grant, 2017 · $280k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds PAIDEIA INSTITUTE FOR HUMANISTIC STUDY ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVANESE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMSTERDAM SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marina Kellen French Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marina Kellen French Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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