· Private foundation
Stephen a Marks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| YWCA OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AAANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +12%
- YOYWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue -33%
- MEMONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- MAMICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +26%
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -21%
- NMNORTHEAST MICHIGAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +31%
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.
See schedule oprovide a vehicle to develop programs, implement strategies and complete projects which further housing and community development goals and advance the common good and general welfare of communities and residents,…
To provide a program for middle and high school students with learning disabilities that works with each student to achieve the highest academic success.
The ann arbor area community foundation enriches the quality of life in our region through its knowledgeable leadership, engaged grantmaking, and creative partnerships with donors to make philanthropic investments and build endowment.
Anne arundel workforce development corporation (aawdc) is a nonprofit organization that enhances the economic vitality of anne arundel county by developing and implementing workforce solutions. we build and maintain a pipeline of skilled…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To provide strong advocacy for businesses, vibrant networking that helps businesses expand their customer base, and unparalleled access to resources important for businesses to grow and succeed throughout anne arundel co
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The ASF mission is to provide incentive scholarship grants to Maine children for their higher education and to support Maine's children's aspirations and access to, and preparation for, higher education.
Teachers association of anne arundel county supports, organizes, and empowers members to improve their professional lives in order to provide, protect, and promote quality public education for every student.
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
Alfred University's mission is helping students realize their purpose. People living a life of purpose enjoy longer and happier lives. Alfred University promotes its mission through three core strengths - Intersections, Mentorship, and…
The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anne Arundel Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is My Brothers Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Maryland Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR EARLY CHILDHOOD CORP MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST MICHIGAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALPENA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Harbour School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 organization Stephen a Marks 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.
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.