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Paul Marshall Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$37kArts & Culture$29kInternational$26kReligion$17kHealth$8kYouth Development$6kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Benefit$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$162k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,000
UNKNWON$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF SANDIEGO: $5k → 11%CHRISTIANS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PROJECT VERITAS: $2k → 9%THE BRIDGE TO LIFE: $3k → 13%COMMENTRY MAGAZINE: $2k → 17%CHRISTIANS IN NEED FUND FUND: $10k → 20%A FOUNDATION ECOM: $1k → 14%TAX FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2k → 14%PROJECT VERITAS: $2k → 14%CAROLINA TEACHERS ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 9%CHRIST THE KING CHURCH: $2k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS RESEACH: $25k → 7%DAVID J KABAKOW FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 10%DISEASE OF PATERSON: $2k → 12%BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER: $5k → 16%CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $3k → 8%A NEW PATH: $2k → 11%CHRISTIANS IN NEED FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE BRIDGE TO LIFE: $3k → 13%COMMENTARY: $2k → 17%TAX FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%THE NEW CRITERION: $8k → 4%DAVID J KABAKOW FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 10%DISEASE OF PATERSON: $2k → 12%A NEW PATA: $1k → 11%THE FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW: $25k → 17%THE NEW CRITERION: $5k → 4%UNKNWON: $1k → 12%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $700 → 17%THE NEW CRITERION: $5k → 4%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

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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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$53k · 7 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$53k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+42%

Still filing today

57%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalReligionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CI
    CHRISTIANS IN NEED FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +111%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE TO LIFE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +53%
  • NP
    New PATH
    2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +295%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS RESEACH
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEWgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • CT
    CAROLINA TEACHERS ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

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The Conversationalist
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Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
3
Press Watch

To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.

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Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
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Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
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Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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The Institute On Religion and Public Life Inc

The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…

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Center for Strategic Research and Communication
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Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
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Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Institute of Politics Policy and History
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Cultural Review and the most unlike its peers is New Path. 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

10 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. 10 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS RESEACH — $25,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS RESEACHIndividual grant recipient — $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAROLINA TEACHERS ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · OtherCAROLINA TEACHERS ALLIANCE INCCHRISTIANS IN NEED FUND FUND — $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIANS IN NEED FUND FUNDUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER — $5,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERPROJECT VERITAS — $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · Other+7 more — $11,700 · Other+7 moreFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CUL…CHRISTIANS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationCHRISTIANS IN NE…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEG…THE BRIDGE TO LIFE INC — $5,000 · HealthNew PATH — $2,500 · HealthCOMMENTARY INC — $2,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,330 · InternationalTAX FOUNDATION — $750 · Public Benefit
Other$91,700Arts & Culture$25,000Education$22,000Health$7,500Religion$2,000International$1,330Public Benefit$750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTIANS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TO LIFE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew PATH — $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $750 over 2y, 0.0% 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 FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW
  • Who funds CHRISTIANS IN NEED FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE TO LIFE INC
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS
  • Who funds New PATH
  • Who funds COMMENTARY INC
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Paul Marshall Charitable 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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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Paul Marshall Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paul Marshall Charitable 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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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