· Private foundation
Marvin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP'S SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| LAS PATRONAS | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE | $8,000 |
| SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| THE TATNALL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $4,000 |
| WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER | $4,000 |
| STEHM INC | $4,000 |
| OPERATION WARM | $3,000 |
| FISHER TRANSITIONAL SERVICES | $3,000 |
| MARTIN'S HOUSE & BARN | $3,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $3,000 |
| FIRST STATE SQUASH | $3,000 |
| SERVICE SOURCE | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LPLAS PATRONAS6× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +17%
- SGSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +16%
- TTTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TGTHE GILLISPIE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +88%
- TPTHE PREUSS SCHOOL UCSDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MHMOM'S HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.
A Home Within is the only national organization dedicated solely to meeting the emotional needs of foster youth.
To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Our mission is to provide advocacy and innovative programming with supports and empowers foster children, their famillies, and alumni impacted by the child welfare system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home of Guiding Hands Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Kraemer Endowment Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Stehm Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILLISPIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KRAEMER ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING ASSIST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds TENDER HEARTSINC ↗
- Who funds BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds First State Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marvin Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Reading Assist Institute — 99% of income from government
- West End Neighborhood House Inc — 36% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Stehm Inc — 22% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- Humane Animal Partners — 14% of income from government
- The Home of the Brave Foundation — 8% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.