· Private foundation
Marsan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Education Endowment Fund | $50,000 |
| Nesivos | $6,000 |
| RJJ School | $4,000 |
| A.F. Yeshiva Amala Shel Torah | $2,000 |
| AF of Ohr Hatalmud | $1,800 |
| Vromantonu | $1,000 |
| Yeshiva Knessyet Bais Aaron | $1,000 |
| Education Opp Fund | $600 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds | $500 |
| Or Yechiel Meir Waldner | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCONGREGATION MESIFTA OHR HATALMUD4× · 2017–2020 · $533k
- VDVARIOUS - DETAIL ATTACHED4× · 2017–2020 · $311k
- NINESIVOS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- GAGur Aryeh Instituteone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SRSHUVU RETURN INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -28%
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.
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 14 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.
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