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Marr Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$58k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$29,973
Organizations funded a year
14 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Marr Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving22$58k36%
FY202319$50k53%
FY202215$52k40%
FY202121$109k52%
FY202022$128k77%
FY201925$95k80%
FY201819$52k95%
FY201714$59kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$280kReligion$134kHealth$121kPhilanthropy$28kHuman Services$13kHousing & Shelter$12kFood & Nutrition$4kInternational$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Marr Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc$64,37620%
Rodman For Kids Inc$47,50021%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$27,50030%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$20,50050%
St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc$7,60030%
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton$7,50010%
Caritas Communities Inc$7,50030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$6,25030%
Children's Hospital Corporation$5,50020%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$3,50040%
St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD$3,50050%
Ron Burton Training Village Inc$3,00020%
Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans$2,50010%
Boston Preservation Alliance Inc$1,50030%
South Boston Community Health Center In$1,20020%
Gavin Foundation Inc$1,10030%
Rosie's Place Inc$1,00010%
Archbishop Williams High School Inc$1,0001n/a
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc$1,00010%
Bethany Health Care Center Inc$1,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%
South Boston Little League$50011%
Milton Animal League Inc$50010%
Braintree July 4th Celebration Comm$50010%
The McCourt Foundation Inc$50010%
Julies Family Learning Program Inc$50010%
Family Reach Foundation$50010%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$45020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$35020%
Italian Home for Children Inc$25010%
Pine Street Inn Inc$25010%
My Brothers Keeper Inc$25010%
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England$25010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$15010%
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc$10010%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$10010%
The Red Sox Foundation Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($384k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marr Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: $64,376 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $47,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $7,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaritas Communities Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Rock Haiti Foundation LTD: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Preservation Alliance Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Boston Community Health Center In: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGavin Foundation Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany Health Care Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Boston Little League: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMilton Animal League Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBraintree July 4th Celebration Comm: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe McCourt Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Reach Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetItalian Home for Children Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoslin Diabetes Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Red Sox Foundation Inc: $100 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 36.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Shaughnessy Charitable Trust · The Flatley Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office

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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Find your warmest path to Marr Charitable 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.

About Marr Charitable Foundation

How much does Marr Charitable Foundation give?
Marr Charitable Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $58,473 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marr Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (46%), Religion (22%), Health (20%).
Who are Marr Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc ($64k), Rodman For Kids Inc ($48k), United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($28k).
Does Marr Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marr Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marr Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Marr Charitable Foundation based?
Marr Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 104 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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