· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $655k
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION | $259,000 |
| BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $200,000 |
| HELPLINE HOUSE | $185,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $150,000 |
| AUGUSTA JEWISH FEDERATION | $120,000 |
| PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| ISLANDWOOD | $26,250 |
| BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST | $25,100 |
| BLOEDEL RESERVE | $20,000 |
| BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES | $15,000 |
| BAINBRIDGE ARTISAN RESOURCE NETWORK | $15,000 |
| UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM | $13,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC | $10,000 |
| EARLY MUSIC GUILD OF SEATTLE | $10,000 |
| ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
45 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BIBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2019–2025 · $545k · revenue +35%
- HHHELPLINE HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $335k · revenue +176%
ISLANDWOOD5× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- SOSEATTLE OPERA CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $140k
- CCChrist Community Health Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +65%
- APAUGUSTA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To provide equal access to quality health care to all persons regardless of age, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or the ability to pay.primary activities: medical, dental, vision and related healthcare services.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Bellevue college foundation brings together people and resources across the community to invest in bc students, faculty, and staff to realize their goals and dreams.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bainbridge Island Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University Health Care Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLANDWOOD ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network ↗
- Who funds Bainbridge Youth Services ↗
- Who funds THE BLOEDEL RESERVE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCALABLE INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CSRA INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE ↗
- Who funds Christ Community Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds The Early Music Guild of Seattle ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marks Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.