· Private foundation
Marks Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $16,000 |
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $14,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $10,000 |
| AMAZING GRACE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $9,000 |
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY SPEAKS OUT | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Marks Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LMLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2024 · $158k · revenue +57%
- GAGarde Arts Center Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +144%
- DPDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
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.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.
Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
To provide healthcare services.
Supporting organization of greenwich hospital
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds DR MARTIN LUTHER KING SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SPEAKS OUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dr Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund: 8% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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