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Marx-Stark Family Foundation at a glance

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Marx-Stark Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Food & Nutrition$126kEmployment$60kEducation$46kInternational$33kHealth$32kHuman Services$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Food Bank for New York City$10,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$5,000
Feeding America$5,000
Save the Children$5,000
World Central Kitchen$5,000
The World Kitchen Chefs for Ukraine$5,000
Orange County Food Bank$3,000
Alameda County Community Food Bank$3,000
Find Food Bank$2,000
The Community Pantry$2,000
American Technion Society$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%National Diaper Bank Network: $7k → 12%Hope House of Colorado: $5k → 7%National Diaper Bank Network: $5k → 12%Focus Points Family Resource Center: $5k → 12%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

IL
NY
CT
CA
CO
VA
NM
DC
GA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 18 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$311k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+38%

Still filing today

72%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalReligionOther
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

  • WO
    WORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS
    4× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +108%
  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +52%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • RV
    READING VILLAGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +32%
  • CM
    Colorado Museum of Natural Historygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
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 Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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5
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
7
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Feeding the Foothills

Feeding the foothills mission is to sustain communities by nourishing families experiencing food insecurity, educating the community about hunger, while advocating for hunger relief.

Food & Nutrition
9
Nourish Colorado

Nourish colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. we pursue systemic changes through state…

Health
10
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
11
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
12
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is California Clubhouse Dba Aspire House. 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

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 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $15,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKTeen Science Scholars Program Denver Museum of Nature and Science: $11,000 · OtherTeen Science Scholars Program Denver Museum …Orange County Food Bank: $11,000 · OtherOrange County Food BankREADING VILLAGE: $10,000 · OtherREADING VILLAGEThe World Kitchen Chefs for Ukraine: $10,000 · OtherThe World Kitchen Chefs for UkraineMETRO CARING: $8,000 · OtherCARE INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 · OtherCASA FOR CHILDREN: $7,000 · OtherCalifornia Clubhouse (Brian Murphy Fund): $6,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House: $6,000 · OtherCommunity Financial Resources: $19,500 · OtherCommunity Financial ResourcesColorado Museum of Natural History: $10,000 · OtherColorado Museum of Natural History+7 more: $29,000 · Other+7 moreWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $60,000 · ReligionWORK OPTIONS FOR…Feeding America: $19,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ameri…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF …FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED …THE COMMUNITY PANTRY: $7,000 · Food & NutritionTHE COMMUNITY…FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $32,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK F…FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFLATBUSH DE…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…Save The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 · InternationalSave The Ch…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $6,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SO…ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $35,000 · EducationORANGE CO…NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$160,000Religion$60,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Community Improvement$42,000International$41,000Education$35,000Human Services$21,500

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 budgetWORK OPTIONS FOR WOMEN DBA WORK OPTIONS: $60,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Financial Resources: $19,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFeeding America: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREADING VILLAGE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO CARING: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HAVEN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Marx-Stark Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marx-Stark Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 34 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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