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Marquez Foundation

TO SUPPORT WOMEN'S ISSUES, MINORITY YOUTH EDUCATION AND POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$87kHuman Services$69kYouth Development$68kEducation$54kPhilanthropy$53kPublic Benefit$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEVOTION TO CHILDREN$12,500
VET VOICE FOUNDATION$11,500
BARTER THEATRE$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDON AND NORTHER FAQUIER COUNTIES$10,000
INVESTIGATIVE STUDIO INC$5,000
THE GUPTA FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,000
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY$3,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL$2,575
Individual grant recipient$2,500
THE ORIGINS PROJECT$2,500
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,500
AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION$2,500
ALL AGES READ TOGETHER$2,015
KNOT TODAY$1,510
NORTH AMERICAN RESCUE$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%AFGHAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
OR
IN
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$293k · 17 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$293k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+4%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • E
    EDU-FUTURO
    2× · 2022–2023 · $61k · revenue +32%
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +6%
  • WT
    WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • 1W
    100 WOMEN STRONG
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
  • FT
    FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

7
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

8
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
9
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
10
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

11
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
12
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gupta Family Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesEducation Equity LeadershipCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Government Accountability R…Fallen First Responder Supp…Animal Rescue and AdoptionLgbtq+ Community CentersCancer Support OrganizationsEarly Childhood Education C…Elementary Literacy TutoringFood Pantries & AssistanceVolunteer Fire DepartmentsChild and Family ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Community Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr14%60%20–35yr15%8%35–55yr15%14%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,434

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.

04the grantee network

32 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
16/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDU-FUTURO — $61,000 · EducationEDU-FUTUROGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION I…Investigative Studios Inc — $20,000 · EducationInvestigative Studios IncLATINO STUDENT FUND — $7,500 · EducationLATINO STUDENT FUNDAll Ages Read Together — $5,060 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDON AND NORTHER FAQUIER COUNTIES — $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDON …BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA — $17,500 · OtherBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEA…100 WOMEN STRONG — $10,000 · Other100 WOMEN STRONGTHE ORIGINS PROJECT — $7,500 · OtherTHE ORIGINS PROJECTBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL — $6,695 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NATIONAL C…VIRGINA BEACH BOAT CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherCARON WASHINGTON DC RECOVER CENTER — $4,500 · OtherAFGHAN AMERICAN WOMEN ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Other+26 more — $37,228 · Other+26 moreDEVOTION TO CHILDREN INC — $53,235 · Youth DevelopmentDEVOTION TO CHIL…OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPPORTUNITY SCHO…WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP …FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORD'S THE…+1 more — $1,200 · Arts & CultureGUPTA FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyGUPTA FAM…TIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,500 · InternationalVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $533 · Civil Rights
Education$126,060Other$113,423Youth Development$58,235Arts & Culture$36,200Philanthropy$32,500International$12,500Civil Rights$12,033

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDU-FUTURO — $61,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDEVOTION TO CHILDREN INC — $53,235 over 4y, 11% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUPTA FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetInvestigative Studios Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO STUDENT FUND — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAll Ages Read Together — $5,060 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFGHAN AMERICAN WOMEN ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOLARS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021 FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKNOT TODAY INC — $1,510 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION — $1,033 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA REGIONAL RESCUE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $533 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIENNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Act for Alexandria · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Marquez 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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