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Marks Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$5.4MArts & Culture$2.5MEducation$2.2MInternational$1.6MEnvironment$1.2MPhilanthropy$824kCommunity Improvement$701kHuman Services$291kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC$300,000
WE CARE SOLAR$250,000
THE V FOUNDATION$250,000
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC$250,000
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC$250,000
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC$200,000
EARTHENABLE$150,000
TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC$150,000
REALIZE IMPACT$150,000
GIVE2ASIA$104,000
BLACK MUSIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCUBATOR$100,000
REALIZE IMPACT$100,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$100,000
COLLEGE TRACK$100,000
HONEYWELL ARTS ACADEMY INC$90,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%United Sommeliers Foundation: $10k → 9%BRANNAN CENTER: $25k → 9%Uplift Afghanistan: $10k → 10%Indiaspora: $50k → 10%The Viscardi Center: $300k → 6%REALIZE IMPACT: $150k → 10%Community Cancer Fund: $8k → 12%THE AASHA FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%The Viscardi Center: $300k → 6%REALIZE IMPACT: $100k → 10%FLOURISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%YMCA of Silicon Valley: $10k → 8%American Red Cross: $50k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $14k → 17%Project Glimmer: $20k → 10%Project Glimmer: $10k → 10%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%PROJECT GLIMMER: $10k → 10%American Red Cross: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
MN
MI
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MA
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IN
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
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NC
DC
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 34 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
62

Total granted

$11M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

74%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +216%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +113%
  • WC
    WE CARE SOLAR
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • VF
    V Foundation - Don't ever Give Up
    one grant, 2022 · $504k
  • RS
    Rick Sharp Alzheimers Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • SS
    SPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
2
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersMilitary Veterans SupportSchool District FoundationsChristian Youth CampsDance Arts OrganizationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,474

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.

04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
46/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ECAD — $1,025,000 · OtherECADV Foundation - Don't ever Give Up — $503,776 · OtherV Foundation - Don't ever Give UpAERIAL RECOVERY — $460,000 · OtherAERIAL RECOVERYRick Sharp Alzheimers Foundation — $250,000 · OtherSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · OtherBusinesses United in Investing (BUILD) — $250,000 · OtherBoston Conservatory At Berklee — $210,000 · OtherBusiness United in Invest Lending & Dev — $200,000 · Other+51 more — $1,771,258 · Other+51 moreTHE V FOUNDATION — $1,601,500 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FO…WE CARE SOLAR — $1,003,000 · HealthWE CARE SOLARRICK SHARP ALZ FOUNDATION — $250,000 · HealthRICK SHARP ALZ FOUNDATION+6 more — $80,000 · HealthJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $807,906 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOO…COLLEGE TRACK — $400,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKEAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $300,000 · EducationEAST COAST ASSI…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $250,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE…TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC — $150,000 · EducationTAHOE EXPEDITIO…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Education+8 more — $144,300 · Education+8 morePROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC — $950,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT MUS…CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION INC — $191,341 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL R…THE HONEYWELL ARTS ACADEMY INC — $180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HONEYWE…SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY …+10 more — $135,400 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $600,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact — $250,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE AASHA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesINDIASPORA — $50,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT GLIMMER — $40,000 · Human Services+7 more — $91,546 · Human ServicesVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $750,000 · InternationalEARTHENABLE INC — $150,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA — $104,000 · InternationalTHE JUNIPER FUND — $100,000 · International+3 more — $65,000 · InternationalTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCELESTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $40,000 · PhilanthropyClayton Education Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyDCM FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyEL DORADO FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,920,034Health$4,434,500Education$2,152,206Arts & Culture$1,581,741Human Services$1,181,546International$1,169,000Philanthropy$270,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $1,601,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $1,003,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetPROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC — $950,000 over 4y, 93% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $807,906 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $750,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $600,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY — $460,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $250,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRealize Impact — $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRICK SHARP ALZ FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetCLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION INC — $191,341 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE HONEYWELL ARTS ACADEMY INC — $180,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE HONEYWELL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEARTHENABLE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL — $138,962 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $125,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL — $110,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIVE2ASIA — $104,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSIMISLEIGHS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetTHE JUNIPER FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Bridge — $60,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetTHE AASHA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCELESTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetINDIASPORA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT GLIMMER — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPIANOSONOMA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANNAN CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOLAR SISTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC — $20,346 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetWESTERLIES MUSIC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…Spur Community Founda…The San Francisco Fou…Bright Funds Foundati…Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Springcreek Found…National Philanthropi…Argyros Family Founda…Clif Family FoundationThe California Wellne…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA23.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Springcreek Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Argyros Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Project Music Heals Us Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marks Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marks Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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