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Marvin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$550kHealth$277kPhilanthropy$146kYouth Development$37kArts & Culture$35kEnvironment$28kHuman Services$27kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$758k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$35,000
MAYO CLINIC$30,000
SEATTLE HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
BREAKING BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION$15,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
BELLEVUE LIFESPRING$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY18–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $3k → 9%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $3k → 9%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $2k → 9%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%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

AK
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
KS
TX
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.
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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 Marvin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Marvin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$780k · 8 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

$780k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +13%
  • SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $60k · revenue +191%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +32%
  • AC
    Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impairedgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +94%
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 San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
2
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
6
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Humane Society and Spca

Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.

Animals
8
Kitsap Humane Society

Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.

Animals
9
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
10
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…

Unclassified
11
Humane Society Silicon Valley

At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)

Animals
12
Best Friends Animal Society

To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breaking Boundaries Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Storyknife Writers Retreat. 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

25 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. 25 of the 31 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
23/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $499,840 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTYVanderpump Dog Foundation: $19,000 · Animals+5 more: $29,000 · AnimalsEISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $139,000 · OtherEISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDA…MAYO CLINIC: $30,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $15,000 · OtherAlaska Center for the Bl…FORTRESS OF THE BEAR: $10,000 · OtherANCHOR-AGE CENTER: $10,000 · OtherOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $14,000 · OtherOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE+5 more: $17,000 · Other+5 moreThe Alaska Community Foundation: $110,000 · PhilanthropyThe Alaska Com…DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNI…SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE HOSPITAL: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $20,100 · Youth DevelopmentBREAKING BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTORYKNIFE WRITERS RETREAT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLIVING DESERT THE: $20,000 · Environment
Animals$547,840Other$235,000Philanthropy$146,000Health$87,500Youth Development$37,100Arts & Culture$35,000Environment$20,000

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 budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $499,840 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $20,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderpump Dog Foundation: $19,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKING BOUNDARIES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYKNIFE WRITERS RETREAT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF FRIDAY HARBOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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

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How do I get to Marvin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marvin 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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home