· Private foundation
Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $558k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE | $200,000 |
| SAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION | $171,000 |
| ONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATION | $149,500 |
| JUILLIARD SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| EDITH AND CARL MARKS JEWISH COMUNITY CENTER OF BENSONHURST | $100,000 |
| RIVERKEEPER | $90,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $75,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER | $75,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $75,000 |
| GOOD WORK INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| DAY ONE EARLY LEARNING | $50,000 |
| NDH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JUSTICE INNOVATION | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +17%
BARD COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $814k · revenue +256%- SDSAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $565k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- NSNORTH SHORE LONG ISLAND JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $498k
NEO Philanthropy Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +28%- BCBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is Charter Oak Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC ↗
- Who funds STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds FORESTDALE INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC ↗
- Who funds Vassar Brothers Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Northern Dutchess Hospital ↗
- Who funds NDH Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Charter Oak Challenge Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD ↗
- Who funds Good Work Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Foundation Inc · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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