· 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 Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $1,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| MAKE A WISH GREATER VIRGINIA | $1,000 |
| KIRVA HOSPICE | $1,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA | $600 |
| CANCERLINC | $600 |
| THE DOORWAYS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +43%
- CZCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +133%
- 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
- MAMAKE A WISH GREATER RICHMONDone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Our mission: transforming health and inspiring hope for all virginians and beyond. our vision: to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while transforming patient care, research, education, and…
As part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day.
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.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
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.
See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
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.
The mission of uvachf is to raise community support and funding through charitable giving for much needed programs, improved facilities, and state of the art technology for uva community health, an integral part of uva health. uva…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RVA Hospice LLC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BOUNDARIES ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marks-Hofheimer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marks-Hofheimer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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