Delaware · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $50M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Marks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $2.9M | 62% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $3.9M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $3.5M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $4.6M | 96% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $526k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The V Foundation | $1,601,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $1,500,000 | 2 | 3% |
| We Care Solar | $1,003,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Project Music Heals US Inc | $950,000 | 4 | 93% |
| Juilliard School | $807,906 | 4 | 0% |
| Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Viscardi Center Inc | $600,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Aerial Recovery | $460,000 | 2 | 14% |
| College Track | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| East Coast Assistance Dogs Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
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About Marks Family Foundation
- How much does Marks Family Foundation give?
- Marks Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $3,040,408 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Marks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Marks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The V Foundation ($1.6M), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($1.5M), We Care Solar ($1.0M).
- Does Marks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% 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 Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Spur Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Marks Family Foundation based?
- Marks Family Foundation is based in DE.
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