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The Andrew and Rachel Marks Foundation at a glance

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The Andrew and Rachel Marks 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.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$380kEnvironment$200kEducation$125kInternational$50kReligion$38kHealth$25kCivil Rights$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STUDIO MUSEUM OF HARLEM$150,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$100,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$100,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$75,000
BARROW STREET NURSERY SCHOOL$50,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$25,000
CONGREGATION OR HACHAIM$13,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 12%CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Indivisible Project

Indivisible project's mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

Civil Rights
2
Indivisible Civics

The mission of indivisible civics is to build civic leadership to empower a grassroots movement that's advancing progressive values and policies. it educates and builds the capacity of grassroots activists with organizing support,…

Civil Rights
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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5
The Energy Foundation

The energy foundation's mission is to achieve greenhouse gas emissions neutrality, world-class air quality, energy access, and green growth through transforming energy and optimizing economic structure.

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6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Tamid Israel Investment Group Ltd

Tamid group facilitates experiential education and cultivates relationships to create a strong, lasting connection to israel for emerging professionals.

Youth Development
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Independent Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Studio Museum in Harlem. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $200,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUN…BARROW STREET NURSERY SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherBARROW STREET NURSERY…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA: $25,000 · OtherUNION OF ORTHODOX JEW…THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPEND…JEWISH HEALTH ORGANIZATION INC: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH HEALTH ORGANIZ…CONGREGATION OR HACHAIM: $13,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OR HACHA…TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationTRINITY E…CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$355,000Environment$200,000Other$168,000Education$75,000Human Services$50,000Civil Rights$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Andrew and Rachel Marks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Andrew and Rachel Marks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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