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Marshall Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.1MArts & Culture$782kHuman Services$712kHealth$301kCrime & Legal$244kEmployment$243kPhilanthropy$200kFood & Nutrition$148kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $447k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UA Foundation - 20242025 SCHOLARSHIP$200,000
UA Foundation - 20242025 SCHOLARSHIPS$200,000
UA Foundation$197,539
UA Foundation$100,000
UA Foundation - Pride of Ariz Marching Band$100,000
UA Foundation - School Garden Workshop$90,000
JobPath Inc$75,000
UA Foundation - CCRMATHERMATICS DEPT$60,000
Literacy Connects$50,000
UA Foundation - Honors College$50,000
Youth On Their Own$50,000
UA Foundation - AZPM$50,000
Florence Immigrant & Refuee Rights Project$50,000
UA Foundation - TMESTEP$49,000
Scholarships A-Z$40,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF TUCSON INC: $25k → 11%BEACON GROUP: $43k → 15%Earn to Learn: $25k → 15%EARN TO LEARN: $25k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $65k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $50k → 15%Youth On Their Own: $50k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $45k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Marshall Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AZ; by stated purpose, 85%.

Marshall Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 36 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
45

Total granted

$4.8M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $872k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyYouth 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

  • University of Arizona Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +54%
  • LC
    LITERACY CONNECTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $201k · revenue +49%
  • JI
    JOBPATH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • UF
    UA FOUNDATION - 20222023 SCHOLARSHIPS
    one grant, 2022 · $198k
  • UF
    UA FOUNDATION - 20232024 SCHOLARSHIPS
    one grant, 2023 · $198k
  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
3
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

—
4
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.

Arts & Culture
5
Arizona Theatre Company

ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.

Arts & Culture
6
Education Forward Arizona

To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.

—
7
Corazon Az

CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…

Civil Rights
8
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
9
Arizona Youth Partnership

Arizona youth partnership, (azyp), empowers youth to harness their strengths to live healthy and purposeful lives.

Health
10
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
11
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
12
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is Books for Classrooms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

U OF A FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherU OF A FOUNDATIONUA Foundation - Honors College: $200,000 · OtherUA Foundation - 20242025 SCHOLARSHIPS: $200,000 · OtherUA Foundation - 20242025 SCHOLARSHIP: $200,000 · OtherUA FOUNDATION - 20222023 SCHOLARSHIPS: $197,539 · OtherUA FOUNDATION - 20232024 SCHOLARSHIPS: $197,539 · OtherUA FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $196,000 · OtherUA FOUNDATION - AZ ASSURANCE: $150,000 · Other+57 more: $2,221,456 · Other+57 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,390,234 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundatio…LITERACY CONNECTS: $200,600 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTSSCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $80,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Education+8 more: $330,000 · Education+8 moreYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $210,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $100,000 · Human ServicesLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $50,000 · Human ServicesBEACON GROUP INC: $42,700 · Human ServicesVIVA PIMA: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,243 · Human ServicesTUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLive Theatre Workshop: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $27,875 · Arts & CultureACT ONE: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureOld Pueblo Community Services: $80,000 · PhilanthropyEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON: $45,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $25,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJOBPATH INC: $200,000 · EmploymentFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $150,000 · Crime & LegalStep Up To Justice: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,062,534Education$2,075,834Human Services$429,943Arts & Culture$260,375Philanthropy$230,200Employment$200,000Crime & Legal$180,000

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 budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,390,234 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $210,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $200,600 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJOBPATH INC: $200,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS: $125,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetSAHUARITA FOOD BANK: $123,020 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $115,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOld Pueblo Community Services: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOLARSHIPSA Z: $80,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona: $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLAPTOPS 4 LEARNING: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBooks for Classrooms: $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetMake Way For Books: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSouthern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSTEP STUDENT EXPEDITION PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetOur Family Services Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSunnyside Unified School District Foundation: $48,647 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS TUCSON: $45,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBEACON GROUP INC: $42,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLive Theatre Workshop: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CLINICS FOR REHABILITATIVE SERVICES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys to Men Tucson Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHILD PARENT CENTERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStep Up To Justice: $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON: $27,875 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $25,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $25,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIVA PIMA: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMARANA SCHOOLS 2340 FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCity Center for Collaborative Learning: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTHWEST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACT ONE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSTARTUP TUCSON: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% 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 University of Arizona Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
  • Who funds JOBPATH INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS ↗
  • Who funds SAHUARITA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS ACTION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIPSA Z ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
  • Who funds The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds LAPTOPS 4 LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds Books for Classrooms ↗
  • Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
  • Who funds Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Arizona Community Fou…Connie Hillman Family…Jewish Community Foun…The Stocker FoundationSocial Venture Partne…Angel Charity for Chi…Donald Pitt Family Fo…The Diane and Bruce H…Absolon Foundation
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ84.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Stocker Foundation · Social Venture Partners Tucson · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Absolon 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marshall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Marshall Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marshall Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 98 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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