Skip to content
Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$251kHuman Services$236kAnimals$168kInternational$143kReligion$126kYouth Development$110kHousing & Shelter$51kHealth$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$6,050
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$58,300
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS$28,600
MARION POLK FOOD SHARE$24,200
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$18,150
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$18,150
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$17,650
SALVATION ARMY POLK COUNTY$15,400
ISSACS ROOM$15,400
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS$9,020
JAMES 2 COMMUNITY KITCHEN$7,700
TECHNOSERVE$7,500
CASA OF POLK COUNTY$6,600
KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY$6,050
PEAR$6,050
ACCION INTERNATIONAL$6,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $29k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $26k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $24k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $18k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $14k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $14k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $14k → 14%CASA OF POLK COUNTY: $7k → 13%CASA OF POLK COUNTY: $6k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $4k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $4k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $4k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 13%CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 30 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+36%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $138k · revenue +138%
  • MF
    MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $134k · revenue +59%
  • IR
    ISAAC'S ROOM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF OREGON
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • CS
    CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -40%
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.

1
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
2
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
3
Helping Animals Live & Overcome in

Helping animals live and overcome (h.a.l.o.) provides a no-kill safe haven where extraordinary measures are taken to save homeless pets and protect them from abuse and neglect. we continually refine our programs to maintain a 98% save…

Animals
4
Farmers Ending Hunger

The organization's mission is to increase the quantity of high quality food commodities donated to the oregon food bank network through a partnership of farmers, food processors, the oregon food bank network and the public.

Human Services
5
Kitsap Humane Society

Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.

Animals
6
Friends of Family Farmers

Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.

Food & Nutrition
7
Our Village Gardens

Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…

Food & Nutrition
8
Marion County Humane Society

The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…

Animals
9
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
10
F I S H of Orchards Inc

FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.

Food & Nutrition
11
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
12
Columbia Humane Society

To assist the community in the successful rehoming (and training) of adoptable animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kauai Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Polk County Historical Society. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $100,650 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSIONSALVATION ARMY POLK COUNTY: $84,400 · OtherSALVATION ARMY POLK COUNTYELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $72,300 · OtherELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANKWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY: $66,000 · OtherWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETYJAMES 2 COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $42,450 · OtherJAMES 2 COMMUNITY KITCHENIndividual grant recipient: $25,110 · OtherACRES OF HOPE: $25,550 · Other+16 more: $159,370 · Other+16 moreFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $137,850 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING B…CREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $25,990 · Human ServicesCREATING OPPORTUN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,750 · Human ServicesAmerican National…CASA OF POLK COUNTY INC: $12,600 · Human ServicesCASA OF POLK COUN…MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $134,200 · Food & NutritionMARION-POLK …+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $65,650 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAM…TECHNOSERVE INC: $35,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE …ACCION INTERNATIONAL: $33,550 · InternationalACCION INTER…HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS: $36,720 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $34,650 · AnimalsKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $23,550 · AnimalsISAAC'S ROOM: $88,400 · Youth DevelopmentPEAR: $33,550 · Housing & Shelter
Other$575,830Human Services$189,190Food & Nutrition$136,200International$134,200Animals$94,920Youth Development$88,400Housing & Shelter$33,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $137,850 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $134,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM: $88,400 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $72,300 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY: $66,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $65,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS: $36,720 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $34,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEAR: $33,550 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetACCION INTERNATIONAL: $33,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCREATING OPPORTUNITIES: $25,990 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetACRES OF HOPE: $25,550 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $23,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF POLK COUNTY INC: $12,600 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMONMOUTH INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,050 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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.

  • Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
  • Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ISAAC'S ROOM ↗
  • Who funds ELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PEAR ↗
  • Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CREATING OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds ACRES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds KINDNESS CLUB DALLAS OREGON ↗
  • Who funds POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …United Way of the Mid…Maps Community Founda…The Autzen FoundationBraemar Charitable Tr…Salem HealthWillamette Health Cou…The Salem FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Roundhouse Founda…The Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Barbara Marx Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Creating Opportunities: 74% of income from government
  • Ella Curran Community Food Bank: 70% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room: 5% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Pear: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Richard and Barbara Marx’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home