· Private foundation
The Alvin Marley Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| MAYFIELD JUNIOR SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS | $10,000 |
| WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| CONSORTIUM FOR GRADUATE STUDY IN MANAGEMENT | $5,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC | $5,000 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION | $3,000 |
| TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| CONSORTIUM FOR GRADUATE STUDY IN MANAGEMENT | $2,500 |
| THE HISTORYMAKERS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of The Alvin Marley Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +71% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +10%
Indiana University Foundation3× · 2020–2022 · $118k · revenue +162%- BEBLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- BUBROWN UNIVERSITY - BROWN ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
- JAJACK AND JILL OF AMERICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONSORTIUM FOR GRADUATE STUDY IN MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES METROPOLITAN DEBATE COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc ↗
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alvin Marley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alvin Marley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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