· Private foundation
Marks-Hofheimer 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Marks-Hofheimer Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Marks-Hofheimer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $24k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,970 |
| JCFR | $2,200 |
| PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $2,000 |
| COMFORT ZONE CAMP | $1,700 |
| VA SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $1,500 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $1,300 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| KIRVA HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| MAKE A WISH GREATER VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CANCERLINC | $600 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA | $600 |
| OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +43%
- CZCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +116%
- JFJewish Family Services Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- CBCONGREGATION BETH AHABAHone grant, 2020 · $2k
- JAJCFR ANNUAL FOR UKRAINE - COMMUNITY FEDERALTION OF RICHMONDone grant, 2022 · $2k
- VMVA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.
As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.
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Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.
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The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 73 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds RVA Hospice LLC ↗
- Who funds OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BOUNDARIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Kathryn & W H Schwarzschild Fund · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Thalhimer Family Foundation · Massey Family Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole
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-Hofheimer 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.