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Marvin Samson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $480k
- $250k+1 grant · $860k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $860,000 |
| VIRTUA FOUNDATION | $235,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $145,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $100,000 |
| CHERRY HILL FREE CLINIC | $25,000 |
| KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AACHS- CENTRAL ALUMNI STEM | $5,000 |
| RAISE THE BAR | $1,000 |
| HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY BIKE-A-THON | $1,000 |
| ESTHER RAAB HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & GOODWIN EDUCATION CENTER | $500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY | $500 |
| SISTER2SISTER-RUNWALK | $500 |
| VOORHEES ANIMAL ORPHANAGE | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +31%
- KBKELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $214k · revenue +102%
- CHCherry Hill Free Clinic Inc4× · 2019–2024 · $56k · revenue +501%
Funded once
- KAKELLMAN ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $251k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCESone grant, 2017 · $100k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +25%
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.
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.
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,…
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Coriell's mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by generating, banking, storing and distributing world-class biomaterials, and conducting groundbreaking research in genetics and epigenetics.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds VIRTUA HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Cherry Hill Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH LACROCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED ALUMNI OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds A STEP UP ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds IPRAXIS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Otho Davis Scholarship Foundat ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Ravitz Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Kenneth and Loretta Schatz Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Anne Brown Koons Foundation · Jeffrey and Tracy Brown Foundation · The Manny and Ruthy Cohen Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marvin Samson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin Samson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
- Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Curry College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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