How much did S EDWARD MARDER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of S EDWARD MARDER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $50k
$10k–50k3 grants · $32k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC$12,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$10,000
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$6,000
EVERGREEN SHARED HOUSING$5,000
PAWS CHICAGO$5,000
CHICAGO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$4,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$3,000
FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$3,000
HOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,500
YOUTHBUILD LAKE COUNTY$2,000
MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS$2,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
FEEDING AMERICA$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$512k · 32 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$512k

$3k

Still filing today

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

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PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +102%
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FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +0%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +97%

Funded once

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AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
one grant, 2017 · $3k

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.

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. to accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance…

Health

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Chicago Crime Commission

Through advocacy and collaboration, we aim to reduce crime and improve public safety, focusing on initiatives like criminal justice reform, violence prevention, and robust support for law enforcement.

Crime & Legal

North Central College

We are a diverse community of learners dedicated to preparing students to be curious, engaged, ethical, and purposeful citizens and leaders in local, national and global contexts.

Education

L'arche Chicago Inc

L'arche chicago provides a home life where people with and without intellectual disabilities live together as peers, create inclusive relationships and transform society to the greater public. l'arche chicago is an intentional community…

Health

Central College

Central college is a private liberal arts institution dedicated to the four year undergraduate experience.

Education

Loyola University of Chicago

We are one of the nation's largest jesuit, catholic universities with over 17,000 students. we work to expand knowledge through learning, justice, and faith.

Education

University of Illinois Alumni

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.

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Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College is a National Residential Liberal Arts College, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Education

True Chicago

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Occidental College. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/20

the rest of the field

13%

4,828/36,538

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.

04the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

14/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$252,350Crime & Legal$106,000Human Services$93,000Food & Nutrition$25,500Housing & Shelter$22,000Employment$21,000Education$13,500

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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation S EDWARD MARDER FAMILY 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.

2025

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MOBILITY SERVICE DOGS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813762679 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MOBILITY SERVICE DOGS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to S Edward Marder Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to S Edward Marder Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

S EDWARD MARDER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to S Edward Marder Family Foundation?

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S EDWARD MARDER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to S Edward Marder Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph