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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 FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$259k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.8MPhilanthropy$919kHuman Services$470kYouth Development$235kEnvironment$232kEducation$180kHealth$173kFood & Nutrition$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $209k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $655k
  • $250k+1 grant · $259k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 ARTISAN RESOURCE NETWORK$15,000
BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES$15,000
UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM$13,000
FOUNDATION FOR SCALABLE INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION$10,000
ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS$10,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY CONNECTION OF COLUMBIA COUNTY: $10k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTION OF COLUMBIA COUNTY: $5k → 7%AUGUSTA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $20k → 18%MONTESSORI ACADEMY OF COLORADO: $5k → 12%HELPLINE HOUSE: $185k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $105k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $15k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $15k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 10%HELPLINE HOUSE: $15k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%BAINBRIDGE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC: $10k → 18%PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 45 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
13

Total granted

$7.0M
$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BI
    BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2019–2025 · $545k · revenue +43%
  • HH
    HELPLINE HOUSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $335k · revenue +176%
  • ISLANDWOOD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • SO
    SEATTLE OPERA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $140k
  • SO
    SEATTLE OPERA RAISE THE PADDLE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CC
    Christ Community Health Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +65%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
2
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Augustana College

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…

Education
5
Columbia Basin Health Association

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.

Health
6
University Cooperative School

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.

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7
Bellevue College Foundation

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.

Education
8
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
9
Siff

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.

Youth Development
10
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Amazon Conservation Association

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…

Environment
12
Chamber of Commerce of Columbia Cou

To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bainbridge Island Land Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
25/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE OPERA: $1,572,500 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERABAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $545,100 · Arts & CultureBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ARTSEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION: $529,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $295,000 · Arts & CulturePILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL+5 more: $112,100 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE OPERA ANNUAL FUND: $782,500 · OtherSEATTLE OPERA ANNUAL FUNDSEATTLE SYMPHONY: $387,000 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONYSEATTLE SYMPHONY ANNUAL FUND: $375,000 · OtherSEATTLE SYMPHONY ANNUAL FUNDAUGUSTA FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIES: $330,000 · OtherAUGUSTA FEDERATION OF JEWISH CHARITIESSEATTLE OPERA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $140,000 · Other+30 more: $725,600 · Other+30 moreHELPLINE HOUSE: $335,000 · Human ServicesBainbridge Youth Services: $60,000 · Human ServicesPEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesAUGUSTA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC: $450,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyISLANDWOOD: $97,834 · EnvironmentBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $96,100 · EnvironmentPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND: $50,000 · EnvironmentPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $27,500 · EnvironmentUniversity Health Care Foundation Inc: $100,500 · EducationBainbridge Artisan Resource Network: $60,000 · EducationBABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE: $25,000 · EducationI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$3,053,700Other$2,740,100Human Services$475,000Philanthropy$455,000Environment$271,434Education$198,000Food & Nutrition$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $1,572,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $545,100 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY FOUNDATION: $529,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND FEDERATION OF AUGUSTA INC: $450,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE: $335,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $295,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity Health Care Foundation Inc: $100,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetISLANDWOOD: $97,834 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST: $96,100 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBainbridge Youth Services: $60,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBainbridge Artisan Resource Network: $60,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $58,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND PARKS & TRAILS FOUNDATION: $52,100 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $50,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CSRA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SCALABLE INNOVATIONS: $40,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCLASSICAL 981: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMORRIS MUSEUM OF ART: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE: $27,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Early Music Guild of Seattle: $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAUGUSTA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVOLUNTEER BOARD OF UNIVERSITY HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION OF COLUMBIA COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF AUGUSTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetRISE Augusta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetE TOWN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HOMES OF AUGUSTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEVUE ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network ↗
  • 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 UNITED WAY OF THE CSRA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCALABLE INNOVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
  • Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AUGUSTA INC ↗
  • Who funds PUGET SOUNDKEEPER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE ↗
  • Who funds PEACOCK FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Christ Community Health Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Early Music Guild of Seattle ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationOne Call for AllBainbridge Community …Georgia Power Foundat…The Community Foundat…Creel-Harison Foundat…The Knox FoundationWyman Youth TrustArtsfundThe Bianchi Family Fo…United Way of the Csr…Rotary Club of Bainbr…
Seattle FoundationWA29× affinity15 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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