How much does Marvy Finger Family Foundation give?

Marvy Finger Family Foundation reported 251 grants totaling $3,291,145 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 177 and 251 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Marvy Finger Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (17%), Environment (8%).

Who are Marvy Finger Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Houston Zoo Inc ($560k), Congregation Beth Israel ($550k), Aishel House Inc ($525k).

Does Marvy Finger Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Marvy Finger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Marvy Finger Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.

Where is Marvy Finger Family Foundation based?

Marvy Finger Family Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Marvy Finger Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 251
Grants FY2024: 251
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $3,573
Largest grant, FY2024: $400,000
Organizations funded a year: 177 to 251; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $82M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Marvy Finger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $422k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	245	$3.3M	39%
FY2023	251	$2.2M	36%
FY2022	185	$2.8M	46%
FY2021	182	$799k	43%
FY2020	177	$998k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.4MHealth$1.8MEnvironment$830kCommunity Improvement$800kHuman Services$670kReligion$585kPhilanthropy$576kAnimals$560kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Houston Zoo Inc	$560,000	5	0%
Congregation Beth Israel	$550,000	3	n/a
Aishel House Inc	$525,000	2	n/a
Hermann Park Conservancy	$470,000	5	2%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc	$380,000	5	1%
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc	$305,000	3	1%
Baylor College of Medicine	$225,000	5	0%
The Houston Food Bank	$165,000	3	0%
The Briarwood School	$165,000	3	1%
Legacy Community Health Services Inc	$160,000	5	0%

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All grantees of Marvy Finger Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Houston Zoo Inc	$560,000	5	0%
Congregation Beth Israel	$550,000	3	n/a
Aishel House Inc	$525,000	2	n/a
Hermann Park Conservancy	$470,000	5	2%
Memorial Park Conservancy Inc	$380,000	5	1%
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc	$305,000	3	1%
Baylor College of Medicine	$225,000	5	0%
The Houston Food Bank	$165,000	3	0%
The Briarwood School	$165,000	3	1%
Legacy Community Health Services Inc	$160,000	5	0%
University of Arizona Foundation	$155,000	4	0%
Houston Symphony Society	$128,000	5	0%
Bridgeyear	$120,000	3	3%
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston	$105,000	5	0%
Houston Area Women's Center	$100,000	1	1%
Houston Parks Board	$100,000	4	0%
Shriners Hospitals for Children	$80,000	4	0%
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc	$75,000	5	0%
The Montrose Center	$75,000	1	1%
The Menninger Clinic	$70,000	4	0%
Bayou Preservation Association Inc	$55,000	5	4%
Houston Youth Symphony	$50,000	5	2%
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston	$50,000	2	2%
My Connect Community	$35,000	3	1%
Rothko Chapel	$25,000	1	1%
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Undies for Everyone	$25,000	1	3%
Evelyn's Park Conservancy	$10,000	1	0%
Mission Squash of Houston	$10,000	1	1%
Walden Community Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Thunder Tactical Shooters Inc	$7,711	2	66%
The Ware Foundation	$587	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 496 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.

Marvy Finger Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX31.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Jerry C Dearing Family Foundation · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Vivian L Smith 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 Marvy Finger Family Foundation

How much does Marvy Finger Family Foundation give?: Marvy Finger Family Foundation reported 251 grants totaling $3,291,145 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 177 and 251 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Marvy Finger Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (17%), Environment (8%).
Who are Marvy Finger Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Houston Zoo Inc ($560k), Congregation Beth Israel ($550k), Aishel House Inc ($525k).
Does Marvy Finger Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marvy Finger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marvy Finger Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Marvy Finger Family Foundation based?: Marvy Finger Family Foundation is based in TX.