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Mariska 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.

$119k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$36,650
Organizations funded a year
14 to 25
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Mariska Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$119k33%
FY202325$95k80%
FY202214$30kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$120kReligion$35kHuman Services$16kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kMembership Benefit$11kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
OH
CO
NE
TN
NC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $78,270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJenks Public Schools Foundation Inc: $17,600 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $12,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Firefighters Benevolence Fund: $11,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTulsa Area United Way: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Day Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEAM Catapult Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDuke University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Children's Museum Inc: $4,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bridges Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tiny Lives Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oklahoma Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Mansion Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma Wildlife Conservation Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCity Year Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Gardens Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThrive to Survive Organization Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHappy Hands Education Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA BMX Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · The Cuesta Foundation Inc · The HA & Mary K Chapman Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance Inc · Morningcrest Healthcare 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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Find your warmest path to Mariska Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Mariska Family Foundation

How much does Mariska Family Foundation give?
Mariska Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $119,075 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Mariska Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Religion (15%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Mariska Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: University of Nebraska Foundation ($78k), Jenks Public Schools Foundation Inc ($18k), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($12k).
Does Mariska Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mariska 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 Mariska Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Mariska Family Foundation based?
Mariska Family Foundation is based in OK.

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 43 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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