Minnesota · Private foundation
The Bill and Margaret Marvin 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.
- $807k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $557,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $250k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $700k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $400k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $313k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $778k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $760k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $700k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Warroad | $2,278,021 | 4 | n/a |
| Warroad Community Development | $600,000 | 3 | 74% |
| Warroad Community Childcare Center | $500,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Northland Community and Technical College Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 47% |
| Warroad Community Partners Inc | $173,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Warroad Historical Society | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
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: Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation with peer funders
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About The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation
- How much does The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation give?
- The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $807,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Public Benefit (33%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Warroad ($2.3M), Warroad Community Development ($600k), Warroad Community Childcare Center ($500k).
- Does The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Minnesota Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation based?
- The Bill and Margaret Marvin Foundation is based in MN.
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