Connecticut · Private foundation
Marks Family Foundation
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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,416
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $271k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Marks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $34k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $18k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $26k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $20k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $19k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $18k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $21k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Humane Society | $15,030 | 8 | 0% |
| Emanuel Synagogue | $11,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Foodshare Inc | $10,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Courant Inc | $10,300 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Laurelwood Inc | $10,054 | 6 | 0% |
| Theaterworks Inc | $9,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $5,616 | 2 | 0% |
| Real Art Ways Inc | $5,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art | $5,200 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marks Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The Auerbach Schiro Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Elizabeth M Landon & Harriette M Landon · The Saunders Foundation Co Shipman & Goodwin · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation
How this is measured
About Marks Family Foundation
- How much does Marks Family Foundation give?
- Marks Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $19,130 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Marks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Health (18%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Marks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Connecticut Humane Society ($15k), Emanuel Synagogue ($11k), Foodshare Inc ($11k).
- Does Marks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marks 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 Marks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, The Zachs Family Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
- Where is Marks Family Foundation based?
- Marks Family Foundation is based in CT.
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