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Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$2.7MEducation$1.9MHealth$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.0MPhilanthropy$986kEnvironment$883kCrime & Legal$371kArts & Culture$240kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $3k → 7%FORESTDALE INC: $40k → 13%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $60k → 16%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $16k → 17%MID PINES FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $225k → 6%FORESTDALE INC: $40k → 13%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $201k → 6%FORESTDALE INC: $25k → 13%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $200k → 6%FORESTDALE INC: $25k → 13%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $200k → 6%FORESTDALE INC: $25k → 13%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $200k → 6%FORESTDALE INC: $25k → 13%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $200k → 6%NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE: $200k → 6%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $10k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $10k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $50k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $42k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%HIP HOP PUBLIC HEALTH: $4k → 17%HIP HOP PUBLIC HEALTH: $3k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
NY
CT
CA
MD
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.7M · 47 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
30

Total granted

$8.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +17%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $814k · revenue +256%
  • SD
    SAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $565k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE LONG ISLAND JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $498k
  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +28%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

4
New York University

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.

Education
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
United Hospital Fund of New York

Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)

Health

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr20%14%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr12%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr20%15%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr12%42%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
11%
7,246/64,254

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
44/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION INC — $565,000 · OtherSAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION INCNORTH SHORE LONG ISLAND JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $498,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE LONG ISLAND JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM …TIDES FOUNDATION — $450,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONFUND FOR THE CITY OF NY — $200,000 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $190,000 · OtherDAY ONE EARLY LEARNING — $160,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT — $145,000 · OtherEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC — $348,000 · OtherEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BEN…HUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $220,000 · OtherJUSTICE INNOVATION INC — $200,000 · Other+44 more — $1,221,500 · Other+44 moreNORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,426,000 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE CHILD & FA…SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES…FORESTDALE INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesFORESTDALE INCASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $125,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT…+8 more — $168,500 · Human Services+8 moreBARD COLLEGE — $813,700 · EducationBARD COLLEGEWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $375,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN…CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC — $175,000 · EducationCHANCES FOR CHILD…JUILLIARD SCHOOL — $125,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL+4 more — $90,000 · Education+4 moreRIVERKEEPER INC — $536,188 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER…ONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATION — $262,000 · EnvironmentONE OCEAN M…NEW VENTURE FUND — $225,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE…Scenic Hudson Inc — $85,000 · EnvironmentScenic Huds…Vassar Brothers Medical Center — $150,000 · HealthNorthern Dutchess Hospital — $150,000 · HealthNDH Foundation — $130,000 · HealthCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC — $50,000 · HealthSimply Put Inc — $25,000 · Health+3 more — $18,000 · HealthCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $425,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc — $75,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $15,000 · Public BenefitSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $300,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $75,000 · Civil RightsSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,197,500Human Services$2,094,500Education$1,578,700Environment$1,108,188Health$523,000Public Benefit$515,000Civil Rights$500,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,426,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $813,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN DAYTOP FOUNDATION INC — $565,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $536,188 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $425,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $375,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC — $348,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetONE OCEAN MEDIA FOUNDATION — $262,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $220,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetJUSTICE INNOVATION INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $195,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFORESTDALE INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC — $175,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetVassar Brothers Medical Center — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Dutchess Hospital — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNDH Foundation — $130,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN — $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCharter Oak Challenge Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUPSTATE FILMS LTD — $83,250 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $42,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC — $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMALKIND INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER OAK FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSKINNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetVOTERIDERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Robin Hood FoundationNY24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nancy and Edwin Marks Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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