How much does Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation give?

Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $2,013,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (18%), Health (18%).

Who are Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Shore Child & Family Guidance Association Inc ($1.4M), Bard College ($814k), Samaritan Daytop Foundation Inc ($565k).

Does Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation Inc.

Where is Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation based?

Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation is based in NY.

Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation

Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $10k
$10k–50k30 grants · $558k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER	$75,000
TIDES FOUNDATION	$75,000
NEW VENTURE FUND	$75,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE	$75,000
GOOD WORK INSTITUTE	$60,000
DAY ONE EARLY LEARNING	$50,000
NDH FOUNDATION	$50,000
JUSTICE INNOVATION	$50,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.7M · 47 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Total granted

$8.7M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

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%

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.

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

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

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…

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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

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

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

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

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

Manhattanville University

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

Education

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

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

United Hospital Fund of New York

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

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; 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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 94 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/76

Grantees still filing

46/76

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,197,500Human Services$2,094,500Education$1,578,700Environment$1,108,188Health$523,000Public Benefit$515,000Civil Rights$500,000

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.

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.

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

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 Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nancy and Edwin Marks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, 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.

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