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· Private foundation
MARINO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$3k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of MARINO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
—
2019
dept
2020
dept
2021
dept
2022
animalfire dept
2023
pets
2024
golf tournamentpolicefire
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$191k
Total assets
Largest grants
- DOVER FIRE ASSOCIATION$1,000
- DOVER POLICE ASSOCIATION$1,000
- ASHLAND FIRE GOLF TOURNAMENT$850
- SHERBORN POLICE GOLF TOURNAMENT$600
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 40% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$78k · 7 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
20
Total granted
$78k
$100k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+69%
+68%
Still filing today
29%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHealthOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +6%
- PVPEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY2× · 2020–2022 · $15k
- RPRI PAROTT RESERVE3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
Funded once
- OFOLD FRIENDS SERVICE DOGSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- GGGENTLE GIANTS HORSE RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BMBOSTON MEDICALone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Sad Tails of Pa Rescue Stop
The organization was formed to rescue animals, predominately dogs. the rescued dogs are then medicated, neutered and put up for adoption. the organization administrates and co-ordinates the entire process.
Animals
2
New England Brittany Rescue Inc
Animal rescue and adoption
Animals
3
Long Journey to a New Beginning Animal Rescue
Animal rescue
Animals
4
Heart & Soul Animal Rescue &
Rescue dogs
Animals
5
Lucky Farms Animal Rescue
Rescue . Rehabilitate and rehome dogs
Animals
6
Loving Farm Animal Sanctuary
Provides a forever home to animals who were rescued from slaughter in the animal agriculture industry. We also adopt and give lifetime care to companion animals who were helpless, abused or in danger.
Animals
7
New England Society for Abandoned
The orgainization is dedicated to the implementation of "no-kill" humane programs to end the suffering and abuse of homeless and abandoned pets.
Animals
8
Northeast Animal Rescue
Provide care, treatment and support for abandoned animals and help provide future homes for such animals.
Animals
9
Animal Pad
We rescue and rehabilitate animals in need of major medical attention and prepare them for adoption into qualified loving homes.
Animals
10
Loveleo Rescue
We rescue and rehabilitate abused, injured and abandoned dogs by providing them medical care, training and other services to make them ready to be adopted by the public.
Animals
11
Maine Coast Animal Rescue
To provide animal protection and welfare organized to prevent cruelty to animals. mcra is a no-kill animal shelter with a mission to help as many homeless and unwanted animals as needed. mcra also rescues animals from high kill shelters…
Animals
12
Mara Rescue
Provide care to rescue animals
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smokey Chestnut Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dover Police Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$133,338Animals$31,000Crime & Legal$10,000Health$5,000Philanthropy$2,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Network for GoodDC8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation MARINO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043508728 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MEDFIELD ANIMAL SHELTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Marino Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Marino Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines