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Marsan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2022
10
Itemized grants FY2022
8
Organizations funded FY2022
88%
First-time grantees FY2022
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59% of Marsan Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Educational Endowment Fund Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’17
1
’18
1
’19
1
’20
2
’21
1
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2022
$67k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2022
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$7.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 88% of the organizations Marsan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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
FY20228$17k88%
FY20213$8k100%
FY20202$186k0%
FY20192$159k0%
FY20182$180k0%
FY20172$318kn/a
65% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$589kYouth Development$12kEducation$5kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Mesifta Ohr Hatalmud$532,5004n/a
Nesivos Inc$12,00021%
Shuvu Return Inc$1,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($322k), not named here.

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About Marsan Foundation

How much does Marsan Foundation give?
Marsan Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $67,300, out of $85,680 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Marsan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (57%), Youth Development (1%), Education (0%).
Who are Marsan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Congregation Mesifta Ohr Hatalmud ($533k), Nesivos Inc ($12k), Shuvu Return Inc ($1k).
Does Marsan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marsan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Marsan Foundation based?
Marsan Foundation is based in NJ.

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 14 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $21k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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