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Marsh Family Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$140kEducation$105kReligion$80kHuman Services$55kCrime & Legal$20kArts & Culture$8kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
JASPER COUNTY CASA$10,000
OZARD TRI-COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM$5,000
CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM$2,500
EASTERN CARTHAGE COUNTY LITERACY ACTION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHAPEL OF GRACE: $10k → 16%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 19%OZARD TRI-COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $10k → 15%JASPER COUNTY CASA: $10k → 18%PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHAPEL OF GRACE: $10k → 16%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 19%JASPER COUNTY CASA: $10k → 15%CARTHAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $110k → 18%CARTHAGE CROSSLINES MINISTRY: $50k → 18%CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $27k → 18%CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20k → 18%CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $17k → 18%CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%CARTHAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%CARTHAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 18%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 18%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 18%CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 18%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 18%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 18%CARTHAGE FAMILY LITERACY COUNCIL: $5k → 18%FEEDING INCORPORATED: $5k → 18%CARTHAGE CROSSLINES: $5k → 18%CARTHAGE CROSSLINES MINISTRY: $5k → 18%EASTERN CARTHAGE COUNTY LITERACY ACTION: $3k → 18%CARTHAGE FAMILY LITERACY COUNCIL: $3k → 18%CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM: $3k → 18%CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM: $3k → 18%CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM DBA ARTCENTRA: $3k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$382k · 8 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$382k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+138%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CARTHAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $130k
  • CP
    CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $85k
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    6× · 2018–2025 · $60k

Funded once

  • CR
    CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +138%
  • CC
    CARTHAGE CROSSLINES
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FI
    FEEDING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -30%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARTHAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $130,000 · OtherCARTHAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $84,500 · OtherCARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARYFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCARTHAGE CROSSLINES MINISTRY: $55,000 · OtherCARTHAGE CROSSLINES MINISTRYPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHAPEL OF GRACE: $20,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHAPEL OF GRACE+5 more: $22,500 · Other+5 moreJASPER COUNTY CASA: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFEEDING INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOZARK TRI-COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$372,000Crime & Legal$20,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARTHAGE CROSSLINES MINISTRY: $55,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM: $5,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetOZARK TRI-COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CARTHAGE CROSSLINES MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING INC ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM ↗
  • Who funds OZARK TRI-COUNTY HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM ↗

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.

McCune-Brooks Health Care Foundation IncMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McCune-Brooks Health Care Foundation Inc · Ir Tua KD&ML Steadley Charitable · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marsh Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marsh Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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