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Marshall Family Foundation at a glance

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Marshall Family Foundation

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$496k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$756kPhilanthropy$526kArts & Culture$386kHuman Services$211kCrime & Legal$29kInternational$10kEnvironment$5kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $183k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX HILL COUNTRY$496,248
ST JOHNS SCHOOL$300,185
YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS$300,000
HOUSTON SYMPHONY$250,701
BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS$73,963
AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE (AVDA)$58,190
RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL$51,100
ALLEY THEATRE$30,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$25,000
THE WOMEN'S FUND$13,800
THE ASTROS FOUNDATION$10,700
LIFTING HANDS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
CRIME STOPPERS$10,000
ARMS WIDE ADOPTION SERVICES$6,037
HOUSTON BALLET$5,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ARMS WIDE ADOPTION SERVICES: $6k → 16%BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $74k → 16%BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $18k → 16%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 7 repeat orgs$891k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$1.0M
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

43%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $890k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • YP
    YES Prep Public Schools Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +5%
  • HS
    Houston Symphony Society
    2× · 2024–2025 · $351k · revenue +17%
  • BB
    BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $91k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • RO
    RIVER OAKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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

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.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra

To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.

Arts & Culture
4
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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5
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
6
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
7
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
8
Houston Area Parkinson Society

The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.

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9
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
10
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
11
The Fay School

See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…

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12
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yes Prep Public Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX HILL COUNTRY: $496,248 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX HILL COUNTRYSt John's School: $300,185 · OtherSt John's SchoolAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE (AVDA): $88,190 · OtherAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE (AVDA)RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $56,100 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL+6 more: $56,565 · Other+6 moreYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $400,000 · EducationYES Prep Public Schools…Houston Symphony Society: $350,701 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Socie…ALLEY THEATRE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATREBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $91,463 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $6,037 · Human ServicesASTROS FOUNDATION: $10,700 · PhilanthropyLifting Hands International: $10,000 · InternationalHermann Park Conservancy: $5,000 · Environment
Other$997,288Education$400,000Arts & Culture$380,701Human Services$122,500Philanthropy$10,700International$10,000Environment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $350,701 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt John's School: $300,185 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $91,463 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALLEY THEATRE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $6,037 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER OAKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Marshall Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marshall Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 19 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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