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The Dennis and Barbara Marion Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE DENNIS AND BARBARA MARION FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NJ$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTER$5,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
AMVETS$2,500
EASTER SEALS$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$2,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL$2,000
PROJECT HOPE$2,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$2,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $1k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $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

MT
IL
MI
NY
SD
NJ
CT
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
DC
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.
$266k · 33 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
6

Total granted

$266k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

52%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic BenefitAnimalsOther

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

  • Feeding America
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +17%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Homegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +26%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +1%

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
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
7
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans. vva is the only congressionaly chartered organization exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families.

Public Benefit
8
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

11
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
12
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 backsteadyLgbtq+ Community CentersVeteran Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Developmental Disabilities …Jewish Community FederationsCancer Support OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionChild and Family ServicesCommunity Health CentersFood Pantries & Assistance
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 71 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%59%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTER — $30,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTERHACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · OtherHACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $22,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCHILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $15,000 · OtherCHILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITALST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL — $6,500 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — $6,500 · OtherDisabled American Veterans — $6,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $6,500 · Other+18 more — $52,550 · Other+18 moreFeeding America — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Ban…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $15,050 · HealthTHE SHRIN…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $4,500 · HealthCYSTIC FI…American Heart Association Inc — $2,500 · HealthAmerican …AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,500 · HealthAMYOTROPH…PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $1,000 · HealthPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 · InternationalNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $4,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,500 · AnimalsWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $1,000 · Human ServicesAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Public BenefitDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$171,050Food & Nutrition$45,000Health$24,550International$16,000Animals$8,000Human Services$8,000Public Benefit$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFeeding America — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $15,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $3,510 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $2,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans
  • Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS INC
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Dennis and Barbara Marion Family Charitable Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The Dennis and Barbara Marion Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dennis and Barbara Marion Family Charitable Foundation 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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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