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Marks 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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$735kEducation$363kReligion$164kPhilanthropy$63kCommunity Improvement$23kRecreation & Sports$18kInternational$15kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL$43,654
MORRISTOWN HOSPITAL$25,293
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$20,264
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$10,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHONA SOCIETY$7,500
HAVERFORD COLLEGE$5,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$5,000
MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL$5,000
TEMPLE HAR SHALOM$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$5,000
OVERLOOK FOUNDATION$5,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$2,500
CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL$2,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER CAMP FUND: $5k → 15%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $55k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%MORRISTOWN HOSPITAL: $25k → 4%TEMPLE HAR SHALOM: $63k → 5%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER CAMP FUND: $5k → 15%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $30k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $70k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%MORRISTOWN HOSPITAL: $25k → 4%TEMPLE HAR SHALOM: $18k → 5%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER CAMP FUND: $5k → 15%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $30k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $60k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%MORRISTOWN HOSPITAL: $25k → 4%TEMPLE HAR SHALOM: $15k → 5%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $30k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $46k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%MORRISTOWN HOSPITAL: $25k → 4%TEMPLE HAR SHALOM: $5k → 5%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $44k → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $42k → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 11%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 11%TMC FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 11%TMC FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10k → 11%WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 4%WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 4%WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 4%WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 4%WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 4%WYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $6k → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
OK
GA
FL
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+38%

Still filing today

46%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationInternationalFood & 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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $352k · revenue +78%
  • EU
    Emory University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +80%
  • OF
    OVERLOOK FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • CU
    CORNELL UNIVERSITY CORNELL ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CL
    CHAI LIFELINE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +38%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

18 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. 18 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
18/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORRISTOWN HOSPITAL: $121,293 · OtherMORRISTOWN HOSPITALTEMPLE HAR SHALOM: $120,500 · OtherTEMPLE HAR SHALOMMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $115,264 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERWYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $43,500 · OtherWYOMING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUJA OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $22,500 · OtherTMC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+9 more: $110,016 · Other+9 moreBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $351,654 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital IncOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $41,000 · HealthOVERLOOK FOUNDATIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,500 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $17,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL: $17,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $170,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COL…Emory University: $57,500 · EducationEmory UniversityMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $41,000 · EducationMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOLCornell University: $40,000 · EducationCornell UniversityUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUN…+3 more: $22,000 · Education+3 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $62,500 · PhilanthropyISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $8,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$553,073Health$445,654Education$370,500Philanthropy$62,500International$15,000Food & Nutrition$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $351,654 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $170,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $62,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $57,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJCC of Central New Jersey: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $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 Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JCC of Central New Jersey ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Morristown-Beard School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Marks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marks 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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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