· Private foundation
The Burke and Violet Marshall 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.
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 $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE | $60,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $40,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $6,000 |
| COMMON JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTH HAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $185k · revenue +12%- CJCOMMON JUSTICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +63%
Feeding America6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +40%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INCone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +17%- BSBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporationone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -32%
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
NatureServe's mission is to leverage the power of science, data, and technology to guide biodiversity conservation and stewardship. We activate our mission by working with a network of 60+ partners located in states and provinces across…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds North Haven Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Burke and Violet Marshall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Burke and Violet Marshall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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