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Marvin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$113k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Marvin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
AnimalsCivil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$113k7%
FY202328$117k11%
FY202230$126k10%
FY202127$92k7%
FY202027$82k26%
FY201726$81kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$237kHuman Services$150kFood & Nutrition$55kHousing & Shelter$49kHealth$38kAnimals$20kCrime & Legal$19kYouth Development$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bishop School$70,0006n/a
Las Patronas$59,00062%
Serviam Girls Academy Inc$47,00061%
The Tatnall School Inc$46,00060%
Food Bank of Delaware Inc$41,50060%
Wilmington Senior Center$19,50060%
Voices for Children$19,00050%
Stehm Inc$18,50062%
The Home of the Brave Foundation$15,25050%
Saint Martins Ministries Inc$15,00060%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marvin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLas Patronas: $59,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetServiam Girls Academy Inc: $47,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Tatnall School Inc: $46,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Delaware Inc: $41,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington Senior Center: $19,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVoices for Children: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStehm Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThe Home of the Brave Foundation: $15,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Martins Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWest End Neighborhood House Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $12,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFaithful Friends Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gillispie School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLatin American Community Center Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKraemer Endowment Foundation Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetReading Assist Institute: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMonarch School Project: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHome of Guiding Hands Corporation: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDelaware Humane Association: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ministry of Caring Inc: $4,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTender Heartsinc: $4,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetHumane Animal Partners: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBeau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children Inc: $3,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFirst State Squash Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelpusadoptorg Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Opera Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolutions for Change Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE33.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Marmot 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.

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About Marvin Family Foundation

How much does Marvin Family Foundation give?
Marvin Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $112,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marvin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (25%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Marvin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bishop School ($70k), Las Patronas ($59k), Serviam Girls Academy Inc ($47k).
Does Marvin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marvin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marvin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Crestlea Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc.
Where is Marvin Family Foundation based?
Marvin Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 43 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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