· Private foundation
Richard & Melissa Mark Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST LOUIS | $126,000 |
| JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $35,000 |
| ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL | $26,000 |
| LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,051 |
| MINDSEYES | $5,000 |
| MADISON COUNTY FALLEN OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
| GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS | $2,500 |
| KENNETH GLENMORE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| DIGNITY PERIOD | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH2× · 2024–2025 · $179k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS2× · 2024–2025 · $52k
- GAGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- JFJJK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- LFLIGHTHOUSE FOR BOYS INCone grant, 2024 · $7k
- ARARCHBISHOP ROBERT J CARLSON ADOPTION GRANTone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
To promote affordable and accessible spay and neuter services to midlands pet owners and support municipal shelters through intake diversion programs.
We honor life through donation.
To improve the quality of life for people affected by organ and tissue donation and transplantation. to transform our community by eliminating the waiting list for organ and tissue transplants.
ACC&D's mission is to advance non-surgical sterilants and contraceptives for cats and dogs and to promote their global accessibility. We envision a world in which dog and cat populations are effectively and humanely managed, improving the…
The mission of legacy of life hawai'i is to save and enhance lives through recovering organs and tissue for transplant; encourage organ donation through community outreach and education; and honor and support organ donors and their families
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Power to decide envisions a world where everyone - no matter who they are or where they live - has control over their bodies and can decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant and have a child. its mission is to advance…
1.) provide low cost, subsidized or free spay/neuter surgeries for cats and dogs, including transportation services, 2.) provide wellness services for cats and dogs, and 3.) provide educational services regarding health and welfare of cats…
United planning organization's mission is uniting people with opportunities.
The mission of the washington dc police foundation is to bring together business, professional, civic and nonprofit organizations and individual citizens to promote public safety by providing financial and in-kind resources to the chief of…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY FALLEN OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds COLLINSVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A Beacon of Light Pregnancy Help Center ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Dignity Period ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
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: Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard & Melissa Mark Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard & Melissa Mark Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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