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Marlette Family 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,041
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,700
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$199k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Marlette Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$5k33%
FY20243$7k33%
FY20233$6k0%
FY20223$7k33%
FY20214$7k25%
FY20202$7k0%
FY20194$12k75%
FY201810$12k40%
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What it funded, over time

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

Education$34kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$18kHealth$11kReligion$4kAnimals$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Donorschooseorg$28,54190%
Tellico Village Community Church Inc$4,0002n/a
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$2,00020%
Hiwassee College$2,00020%
Monroe County Friends of Animals$2,00030%
Cleveland State Community College$2,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$1,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,00010%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Marlette Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Donorschooseorg$28,54190%
Tellico Village Community Church Inc$4,0002n/a
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$2,00020%
Hiwassee College$2,00020%
Monroe County Friends of Animals$2,00030%
Cleveland State Community College$2,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,00010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$1,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$1,00010%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$1,00010%
SpayNeuter Assistance for Pets Inc$1,0002n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marlette Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonorschooseorg: $28,541 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHiwassee College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMonroe County Friends of Animals: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Marlette Family Foundation

How much does Marlette Family Foundation give?
Marlette Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $4,841 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Marlette Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Philanthropy (25%), Youth Development (18%).
Who are Marlette Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donorschooseorg ($29k), Tellico Village Community Church Inc ($4k), National Brain Tumor Society Inc ($2k).
Does Marlette Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marlette 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 Marlette Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Marlette Family Foundation based?
Marlette Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 22 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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