Oregon · Private foundation
Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $295k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,050
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $58,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $289k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $213k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $183k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $182k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $131k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $127k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $121k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Building Blocks Inc | $137,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Marion-Polk Food Share Inc | $134,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission | $100,650 | 7 | n/a |
| Isaac's Room | $88,400 | 7 | 2% |
| Ella Curran Community Food Bank | $72,300 | 7 | 3% |
| Willamette Humane Society | $66,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medical Teams International | $65,650 | 4 | 0% |
| James 2 Community Kitchen | $42,450 | 7 | n/a |
| Humane Society of the Ochocos | $36,720 | 5 | 1% |
| Technoserve Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Building Blocks Inc | $137,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Marion-Polk Food Share Inc | $134,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission | $100,650 | 7 | n/a |
| Isaac's Room | $88,400 | 7 | 2% |
| Ella Curran Community Food Bank | $72,300 | 7 | 3% |
| Willamette Humane Society | $66,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medical Teams International | $65,650 | 4 | 0% |
| James 2 Community Kitchen | $42,450 | 7 | n/a |
| Humane Society of the Ochocos | $36,720 | 5 | 1% |
| Technoserve Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Oregon Humane Society | $34,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Pear | $33,550 | 7 | 1% |
| Accion International | $33,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Creating Opportunities | $25,990 | 7 | 1% |
| Acres of Hope | $25,550 | 5 | 3% |
| Kauai Humane Society Inc | $23,550 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $12,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa of Polk County Inc | $12,600 | 2 | 2% |
| Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kindness Club Dallas Oregon | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Polk County Historical Society | $2,000 | 1 | 3% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($257k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Maps Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Salem Health · Willamette Health Council · The Salem Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
How this is measured
Compare Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation with peer funders
About Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation
- How much does Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation give?
- Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $295,140 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), Human Services (19%), Animals (13%).
- Who are Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Family Building Blocks Inc ($138k), Marion-Polk Food Share Inc ($134k), Union Gospel Mission ($101k).
- Does Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation 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 Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley, Maps Community Foundation.
- Where is Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation based?
- Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation is based in OR.
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