· Private foundation
Marrus Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
67% of Marrus Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 30 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
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, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| BRIGHAMS AND WOMENS HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANUEL | $88,550 |
| JUMPSTART | $50,000 |
| RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST | $30,000 |
| OPENING ACT | $25,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| COUNT BASIE THEATER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| CAMP DUDLEY YMCA | $12,500 |
| THE SUMMER CAMP | $11,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
61 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RTRISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST3× · 2022–2024 · $91k · revenue +20%
ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +16%- WCWellesley College3× · 2022–2024 · $46k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- EAEYE AND EAR HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $50k
- VHVNA HEALTH GROUPone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ECEPISCOPAL CHARITIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
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Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
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How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 98 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 AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Opening Act Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE ARTHUR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BOTTOMLESS CLOSET ↗
- Who funds SALVADORI CENTER LTD ↗
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 New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Mercy Family Foundation Inc · The Keith Haring Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marrus Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marrus Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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