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Marinella Family 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.

$138k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$41,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$474k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Marinella Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving16$138k19%
FY202315$69k13%
FY202215$63k13%
FY202117$78k18%
FY202016$50k19%
FY201915$39k7%
FY201816$44k19%
FY201713$35kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$157kHealth$156kYouth Development$86kRecreation & Sports$55kArts & Culture$21kEnvironment$12kHuman Services$9kAnimals$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nantucket Partnership for Children Inc$95,00051%
Trustees of Boston College$46,00050%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$45,00080%
West End House Inc$40,00040%
Epilepsy Foundation New England$40,00080%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc$36,00080%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$20,0001n/a
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$19,00060%
St Mark's School of Southborough Inc$12,50050%
The Fessenden School$12,50050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marinella Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNantucket Partnership for Children Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWest End House Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation New England: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Public Garden Inc: $36,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mark's School of Southborough Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fessenden School: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStowe Performing Arts Inc: $12,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNantucket Boys and Girls Club Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStowe Land Trust: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEmerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Club of the Back Bay Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPlymouth River School PTO Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElton John AIDS Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Association of the Back Bay Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Fidelity FoundationMA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Marinella Family Foundation

How much does Marinella Family Foundation give?
Marinella Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $138,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marinella Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (30%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Marinella Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nantucket Partnership for Children Inc ($95k), Trustees of Boston College ($46k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($45k).
Does Marinella Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marinella Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marinella Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Marinella Family Foundation based?
Marinella Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 30 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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