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Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$132,288
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalHuman 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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20235$142k60%
FY20228$9k88%
FY20215$20k40%
FY202016$18k63%
FY201917$24k65%
FY20189$15k44%
FY201712$21kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$136kArts & Culture$57kReligion$33kEducation$21kInternational$598Philanthropy$525Animals$460Public Safety & Disaster$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dancers Group$41,10950%
Or Shalom Jewish Community$32,3407n/a
Urban School of San Francisco$6,25040%
Garrett Moulton Productions$4,5504n/a
University of Chicago$2,87530%
Bay Pointe Ballet$2,8001n/a
Live Oak a Learning Center for Children$2,00020%
Fractured Atlas Inc$1,50010%
Theatre Bay Area$1,00010%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$90020%
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Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDancers Group: $41,109 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUrban School of San Francisco: $6,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLive Oak a Learning Center for Children: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Bay Area: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGiants Community Fund: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreatment Advocacy Center: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Ballet Theater Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Conservatory Theatre Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Caregiver Alliance: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Pacific Medical Center Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeagle Freedom Project: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Music Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI Chicago: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Parks Alliance: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Jewish Museum: $95 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Ridge Music Center Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 26.

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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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust

How much does Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust give?
Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust reported 6 grants totaling $143,378 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (53%), Arts & Culture (22%), Religion (13%).
Who are Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Dancers Group ($41k), Or Shalom Jewish Community ($32k), Urban School of San Francisco ($6k).
Does Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust based?
Nancy W Marks Charitable Trust is based in CA.

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 51 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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