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The Carl Marks 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.

$680k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$122k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$3.1MHealth$2.0MReligion$1.9MInternational$1.8MRecreation & Sports$851kPhilanthropy$823kYouth Development$734kHuman Services$669kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $455k
$9,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$122,130
SEVA FOUNDATION$94,600
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$75,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$63,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$50,000
NMDP FOUNDATION$50,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$45,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$25,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$15,000
THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$12,500
NATIONAL TAY SACHS & ALLIED DISEASES ASSOCIATION I$12,500
FRIENDS OF CONSERVATION - FRIENDS$12,000
PROVIDENCE ASSEMBLY OF GOD$10,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$9,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $321k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM FOR SPECIAL SERVICES INC: $20k → 9%HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $2k → 16%LEARNING ALLY: $9k → 11%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $10k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM FOR SPECIAL SERVICES INC: $20k → 9%LEARNING ALLY: $8k → 11%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $7k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM FOR SPECIAL SERVICES INC: $20k → 9%LEARNING ALLY: $7k → 11%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $6k → 8%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $2k → 7%SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM FOR SPECIAL SERVICES INC: $20k → 9%JEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $5k → 20%LEARNING ALLY: $7k → 11%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $2k → 7%SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM FOR SPECIAL SERVICES INC: $10k → 9%LEARNING ALLY: $7k → 11%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $7k → 11%WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS: $5k → 8%LEARNING ALLY: $6k → 11%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $3k → 16%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $10k → 12%THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $10k → 12%THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $5k → 12%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $2k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $2k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $2k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $2k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $2k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $2k → 9%STAR FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 9%STAR FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 9%STAR FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 9%ALS ANGELS INC: $2k → 9%ALS ANGELS INC: $2k → 9%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 130 repeat orgs$584k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

130 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130
117

Total granted

$12M
$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

87%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $880k · revenue +17%
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $797k · revenue +20%
  • Cornell University
    4× · 2017–2021 · $681k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • Solidaire Network Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -24%
  • PM
    PROJECT MORRY PROPERTIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Environmental Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Construc…Christian Youth CampsChristian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Military Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Public Library OperationsCommunity Food PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Development ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Pregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/236
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

218 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. 218 of the 261 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
214/218
Grantees still filing
152/218
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FJC — $1,550,000 · OtherFJCTHE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE INC — $305,438 · OtherTHE CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE INCCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $260,000 · OtherCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONCHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $219,160 · OtherAppalachian Mountain Club — $310,000 · OtherAppalachian Mountain ClubCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $195,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK — $195,000 · Other+98 more — $1,422,188 · Other+98 moreACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $797,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCCornell University — $680,729 · EducationCornell UniversityHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYROCKING THE BOAT INC — $195,000 · EducationROCKING THE BOAT INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $132,826 · Education50CAN INC — $125,000 · Education+26 more — $479,398 · Education+26 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $879,565 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH…Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $324,580 · HealthAnn & Robert H L…JEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN — $195,000 · HealthJEWISH HOME LIFE…JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $97,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $92,500 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $68,000 · Health+19 more — $215,900 · Health+19 moreSEVA FOUNDATION — $446,780 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATI…IMPACTISRAEL INC — $263,300 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL …International Rescue Committee INC — $200,000 · InternationalInternational…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FO…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $128,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIE…THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC — $75,000 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $65,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC — $60,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $60,000 · International+7 more — $87,300 · International+7 moreMORRY'S CAMP INC — $325,000 · Recreation & SportsMORRY'S C…EDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC — $216,167 · Recreation & SportsEDITH & C…STREETSQUASH INC — $195,000 · Recreation & SportsSTREETSQU…ROW NEW YORK INC — $165,000 · Recreation & SportsROW NEW Y…FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $165,000 · Recreation & SportsFIGURE SK…+1 more — $1,800 · Recreation & SportsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $514,300 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION — $148,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc — $60,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $50,000 · PhilanthropyStudents Matter — $33,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $70,000 · PhilanthropyFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT MORRY PROPERTIES INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIGHT MY WAY CAREER DAY INC — $20,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,456,786Education$2,809,953Health$1,873,045International$1,536,380Recreation & Sports$1,067,967Philanthropy$875,300Youth Development$432,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $879,565 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $797,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCornell University — $680,729 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $514,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION — $446,780 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORRY'S CAMP INC — $325,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $324,580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $310,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $263,300 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetEDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH COMMUNITY HOUSE BENSONHURST INC — $216,167 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC — $195,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH HOME LIFECARE MANHATTAN — $195,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC — $195,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $195,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- NEW YORK — $195,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetROW NEW YORK INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $165,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC — $165,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $148,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $132,826 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $128,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budget50CAN INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $97,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $92,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM — $90,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $68,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY — $65,720 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $60,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $59,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGO PHILANTHROPIC CHARITABLE FUND — $52,928 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc — $49,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Lane — $46,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE — $43,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED — $43,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

FjcFairfield County's Co…Robin Hood FoundationJewish Communal FundProteus Fund IncThe Hyde and Watson F…The Stewart & Constan…William Caspar Graust…Viking Global Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Community Foun…Newman's Own Foundati…
FjcNY58.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fjc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Newman's Own 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 The Carl Marks Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Clasp Homes Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Carl Marks Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Carl Marks Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 261 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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