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Marisa Martini Private Foundation Inc at a glance

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Marisa Martini Private Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$1.4MEducation$638kInternational$627kHuman Services$423kFood & Nutrition$172kYouth Development$150kReligion$129kHousing & Shelter$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $711k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$15,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PETERS PREP$100,000
NOVICK GLOBAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE$100,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE$100,000
EMPOWER ETHIOPIA INC$50,000
FRIENDS OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN INC$50,000
PARTNERSHPS FOR CHILDREN$41,000
MERCY CENTER$35,000
CAMP FATIMA OF NJ$25,000
THURMAN BRISBANE CENTER$25,000
THE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION$25,000
UHMLA$25,000
ELIZABETH COALITION$25,000
MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
NAZARETH FARMS$25,000
INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBINIMIA FDN$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–25, $391k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIGNS OF FUN: $20k → 15%CHOOSE LOVE INC: $25k → 17%HUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 6%EMPOWER HER NETWORK: $25k → 9%MERCY CENTER: $35k → 6%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $20k → 11%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $10k → 11%FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND: $20k → 15%Jespy House Inc: $1k → 16%FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND: $20k → 15%BUNDLES OF JOY: $5k → 9%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 31 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
49

Total granted

$2.7M
$772k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +59%
  • HH
    Hawassa Hope Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $203k · revenue +12%
  • BI
    BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +78%
  • SP
    ST PETERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • MC
    Mercy Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +34%
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
Miracle Flights

Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.

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2
Miracles for Kids Inc

Miracles for kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression so they concentrate on what is most important - fighting for their child's life.

Recreation & Sports
3
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
4
Cure Rare Disease Inc

Our mission is to enable and finance the development of life-saving genetic medicines for ultra-rare patient populations previously deemed too rare to treat. to realize this, our unique ecosystems facilitates collaboration between…

Health
5
Curenfwithjack

The mission of CureNFwithJack is to accelerate awareness and find a cure or effective treatment through the funding of research. CureNFwithJack provides seed money for innovate research in multiple areas, including but not limited to drug…

Education
6
Als One Inc

The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…

Health
7
Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health
8
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Associationiowa Chapter

Leading the fight to treat and cure als through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with lou gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.

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9
Partnership for Cures

Cures Within Reach leverages the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of testing approved therapies for new indications/diseases without effective treatment driving more treatments quicker to more patients.

Health
10
Prayers From Maria Children's Glioma Cancer Foundation

The prayers from maria foundation was established to fight a specific form of childhood brain cancer commonly referred to as "gliomas." the foundation's purpose is to find a cure for this tragic family of diseases, while also providing…

Health
11
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma

Our mission is to drive research for treatments and a cure for sma, and to support and empower everyone impacted by sma today.

Health
12
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Center Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Wishing Chair Foundation. 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

67 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. 67 of the 117 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
30/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PETER'S PREP: $520,000 · OtherST PETER'S PREPFRIENDS OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN INC: $225,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN INCBRAILLE INSTITUTE: $200,000 · OtherBRAILLE INSTITUTENOVICK GLOBAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $200,000 · OtherNOVICK GLOBAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE+71 more: $1,164,232 · Other+71 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPI…UHMLA INC: $75,000 · HealthUHMLA INCACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $60,000 · HealthACCELERATED CU…AUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthAUTISM SCIENCE…WarriorNOW: $30,000 · HealthWarriorNOWTHE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthStaytoughFighthard Inc: $20,000 · HealthProject MEND: $20,000 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · Health+7 more: $32,000 · Health+7 moreBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTIT…PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $102,326 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIPS F…FAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF TH…MERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CENTER C…ONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $29,788 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WIS…CHOOSE LOVE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK: $25,000 · Human ServicesSIGNS OF FUN: $20,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF HOPE: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $16,000 · Human ServicesHawassa Hope Inc: $202,799 · InternationalHawassa Hope…WILLIAM NOVICK GLOBAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $125,000 · InternationalWILLIAM NOVI…Empower Ethiopia Inc: $99,074 · InternationalEmpower Ethi…NAZARETH FARM INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Community Corporation: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterMercy Center Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCatalyst Sports Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLEASHES OF VALOR: $45,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS IN CRISIS: $10,000 · Public BenefitFAWN LAKE VETERANS GROUP: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,309,232Health$527,000Human Services$513,114International$426,873Housing & Shelter$90,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Public Benefit$57,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN INC: $225,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetHawassa Hope Inc: $202,799 over 2y, 19% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM NOVICK GLOBAL CARDIAC ALLIANCE: $125,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $102,326 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpower Ethiopia Inc: $99,074 over 2y, 41% of budgetUHMLA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetNAZARETH FARM INC: $65,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMercy Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetANCHOR RIDGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEASHES OF VALOR: $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILIES OF THE WOUNDED FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMERCY CENTER CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOURISHNJ INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWarriorNOW: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $29,788 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Cajun Navy: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Community Corporation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION AIRDROP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHOOSE LOVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSIGNS OF FUN: $20,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStaytoughFighthard Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetProject MEND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARING CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERKELEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHUTTO RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCatalyst Sports Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVETERANS IN CRISIS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Wishing Chair Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCAMP NO WORRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUNDLES OF JOY NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWESTFIELD VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC BURN CAMP FUND INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMYELIN REPAIR FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Chubb Charitable Foun…Columbia Bank Foundat…American Express Foun…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Shell USA Company Fou…Assurant FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ17.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · American Express Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marisa Martini Private Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marisa Martini Private Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: 47% of income from government
  • Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Mercy Center Corporation: 21% of income from government
  • New Community Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 117 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home