· Private foundation
Richard E & Nancy P Marriott 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k71 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER | $200,000 |
| BRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $175,000 |
| CITYWORKS DC | $175,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $172,090 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $150,000 |
| MAMATOTO VILLAGE | $150,000 |
| MARY'S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE INC | $150,000 |
| INSPIRED CHILD A PROGRAM OF DUMBARTON ARTS & EDUCATION | $144,725 |
| THE PLATFORM OF HOPE A PROJECT OF SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $125,000 |
| IDENTITY INC | $120,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC | $100,000 |
| KIPP DC | $100,000 |
| HORTON'S KIDS | $98,053 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $97,887 |
| CAPITA SOCIAL INC | $97,808 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
98 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC3× · 2017–2025 · $465k · revenue +50%- BPBRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +98%
- MCMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc3× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $150k
- BBBuilding Bridges Across the River t/a THEARCone grant, 2017 · $130k
- AIAppletree Instituteone grant, 2017 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 180 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYWORKS DC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITA SOCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc ↗
- Who funds GENESYS WORKS ↗
- Who funds ON-RAMPS TO CAREERS INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds SPARK THE JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
- Who funds URBAN ED INC ↗
- Who funds Bridges from School to Work Inc ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · The J Willard and Alice S Marriott Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · England Family Foundation
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 Richard E & Nancy P Marriott 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.
- Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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