Washington · 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $259,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Marks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 31 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $945k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $787k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $782k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $823k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $752k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $776k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $639k | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Opera | $1,572,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Bainbridge Island Museum of Art | $545,100 | 7 | 4% |
| Seattle Symphony Foundation | $529,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Jewish Community Center and Federation of Augusta Inc | $450,000 | 4 | 33% |
| Helpline House | $335,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Pilchuck Glass School | $295,000 | 9 | 1% |
| University Health Care Foundation Inc | $100,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Islandwood | $97,834 | 5 | 0% |
| Bainbridge Island Land Trust | $96,100 | 5 | 1% |
| Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · One Call for All · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · The Knox Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Artsfund · The Bianchi Family Foundation Javier Ordaz Cerity Partners · United Way of the Csra Inc · Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust
How this is measured
About Marks Family Foundation
- How much does Marks Family Foundation give?
- Marks Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,183,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 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 (67%), Philanthropy (13%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Marks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle Opera ($1.6M), Bainbridge Island Museum of Art ($545k), Seattle Symphony Foundation ($529k).
- Does Marks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% 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 Seattle Foundation, One Call for All, Bainbridge Community Foundation.
- Where is Marks Family Foundation based?
- Marks Family Foundation is based in WA.
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