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Marstine Family Foundation at a glance

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Marstine Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$390k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MEducation$1.5MHuman Services$645kArts & Culture$376kScience & Tech$250kInternational$113kAnimals$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $329k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
  • $250k+3 grants · $940k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCLERODERMA RESEARCH$390,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ENDOWED RESEARCH FUND - HILLMAN$250,000
THE EYE & EAR FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH$125,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER INC$58,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$52,100
YESHIVATH SCHOOLS OF PITTSBURGH$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$50,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$40,000
JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING$35,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE$35,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$21,000
VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON$20,000
ANIMAL FRIENDS$20,000
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, $533k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 13%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $50k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $50k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $35k → 11%YOUNG MEN & WOMENS HEBREW ASSN & IRENE KAUFMANN CENTERS: $35k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $35k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $30k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $30k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $30k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $30k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 40 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
7

Total granted

$5.9M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+23%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $297k 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
InternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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 PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $691k · revenue +11%
  • WT
    WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2023 · $450k · revenue +33%
  • EA
    EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $435k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +23%
  • FA
    FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -58%
  • BS
    BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +184%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
3
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
9
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Association On Aging; the most unlike its peers is First Amendment Museum At the Gannett House. 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

39 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. 39 of the 55 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCLERODERMA RESEARCH: $1,425,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCLERODERMA RESEARCHUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER: $500,000 · OtherUPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTERWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $450,000 · OtherWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ENDOWED RESEARCH FUND - HILLMAN: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ENDOWED RESEARCH FUND - HIL…+29 more: $883,000 · Other+29 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,320,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GRE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISH…Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $142,100 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Allianc…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $691,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER INC: $176,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIE…+1 more: $8,333 · EducationEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $435,000 · HealthEYE AND EA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $175,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America: $45,000 · HealthWeight Los…+2 more: $20,833 · HealthYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $220,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $185,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $120,000 · Human Services+1 more: $8,333 · Human ServicesCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $130,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $52,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLASSICAL UPRISING: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAnimal Friends Inc: $80,000 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $30,000 · Animals
Other$3,508,000Philanthropy$1,612,100Education$875,333Health$675,833Human Services$533,333Arts & Culture$267,000Animals$110,000

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,320,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $691,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL: $450,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $435,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $220,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $185,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER INC: $176,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $175,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT INC: $150,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $142,100 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC: $62,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWeight Loss Surgery Foundation of America: $45,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPHILIP HAYDEN FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAID FOR KIDS: $34,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chest Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOneSky: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN OF VIETNAM: $18,334 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetShalom House Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICAL UPRISING: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAlliance for Education: $8,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI WESTSIDE LA: $8,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMBHALI US INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetYARMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $1,000 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ↗
  • Who funds PHILIP HAYDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AID FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds The Chest Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OneSky ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Jack Buncher Foun…Jewish Federation of …Maine Community Found…The Pittsburgh Founda…Ladies Hospital Aid S…The Fine FoundationSam L Cohen FoundationStaunton Farm Foundat…Richard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…Impactassetsinc
The Jack Buncher FoundationPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jack Buncher Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pa · The Fine Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Impactassetsinc

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 Marstine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marstine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report 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.

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 55 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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