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Marvin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$237kHuman Services$150kFood & Nutrition$55kHousing & Shelter$49kHealth$38kAnimals$20kCrime & Legal$19kYouth Development$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAS PATRONAS$15,000
BISHOP'S SCHOOL$15,000
FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE$8,000
SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY$7,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
THE TATNALL SCHOOL$5,000
WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER$4,000
STEHM INC$4,000
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$4,000
FISHER TRANSITIONAL SERVICES$3,000
FAITHFUL FRIENDS$3,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN$3,000
FIRST STATE SQUASH$3,000
OPERATION WARM$3,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $1k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $1k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $1k → 6%GILLISPIE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $2k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $3k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $2k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $1k → 11%HOME OF GUIDING HANDS: $1k → 11%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 10%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 10%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $900 → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$576k · 33 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
8

Total granted

$576k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • LP
    LAS PATRONAS
    6× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +17%
  • SG
    SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +16%
  • TT
    THE TATNALL SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GILLISPIE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +88%
  • TP
    THE PREUSS SCHOOL UCSD
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MH
    MOM'S HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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3
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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4
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
5
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
6
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.

Human Services
7
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Housing Alliance Delaware

Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.

Housing & Shelter
9
A Home Within Inc

A Home Within is the only national organization dedicated solely to meeting the emotional needs of foster youth.

Human Services
10
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

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.

Human Services
11
San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights
12
Fosteradopt Connect Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Home of Guiding Hands Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 43 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BISHOP SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherBISHOP SCHOOLLAS PATRONAS: $59,000 · OtherLAS PATRONASSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $47,000 · OtherSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIRLS ON THE RUN: $17,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $16,500 · OtherTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION: $15,250 · OtherSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · OtherWEST END NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $14,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS: $13,000 · OtherFISHER TRANSITIONAL SERVICES INC: $13,000 · Other+14 more: $71,150 · Other+14 moreWILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER: $19,500 · Human ServicesWILMINGTON S…Operation Warm Inc: $12,250 · Human ServicesOperation Wa…THE GILLISPIE SCHOOL: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GILLISPI…LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERIC…HOME OF GUIDING HANDS CORPORATION: $6,500 · Human ServicesHOME OF GUID…BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN INC: $3,400 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human Services+2 moreTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC: $46,000 · EducationTHE TATNALL …READING ASSIST INSTITUTE: $8,500 · EducationREADING ASSI…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $8,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHO…Teach for America Inc: $2,500 · EducationFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $41,500 · Food & NutritionFAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $10,500 · AnimalsDELAWARE HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS: $4,000 · AnimalsVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $19,000 · Civil RightsStehm Inc: $18,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$380,900Human Services$65,150Education$65,000Food & Nutrition$41,500Animals$19,500Civil Rights$19,000Housing & Shelter$18,500

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 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
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 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 THE GILLISPIE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 TENDER HEARTSINC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL PARTNERS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Fo…Crestlea Foundation I…Longwood Foundation I…Chichester Dupont Fou…Welfare Foundation IncLaffey-McHugh Foundat…Incyte Charitable Giv…United Way of DelawareJpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…Marmot Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 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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