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The Elaine Nicpon Marieb Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Elaine Nicpon Marieb 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.

$8.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$26MEnvironment$3.0MYouth Development$1.3MPhilanthropy$925kInternational$860kHealth$325kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+3 grants · $8.1M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$4,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$3,525,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$540,000
GIRLS INC$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY$50,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$25,000
NGBIGP$12,000
HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $575k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $3.5M → 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $50k → 16%CHILDREN FIRST: $300k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $175k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2.3M → 11%HOPE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $35k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $3.3M → 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $50k → 17%CHILDREN FIRST: $180k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $150k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2.3M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $2.0M → 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $50k → 17%CHILDREN FIRST: $180k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $125k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $470k → 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $50k → 17%CHILDREN FIRST: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $50k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 11%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25k → 16%HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4.0M → 17%CHILDREN FIRST: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $50k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 11%HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $500k → 17%GIRLS INC: $300k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $50k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $540k → 11%GIRLS INC: $300k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $25k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $540k → 11%GIRLS INC: $250k → 9%ALZHEIMER'S SUPPORT NETWORK: $25k → 10%LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 11%GIRLS INC: $200k → 9%ALZHEIMER'S SUPPORT NETWORK: $25k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $540k → 11%GIRLS INC: $200k → 9%GIRLS INC: $50k → 9%MARIE SHELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1.0M → 9%MARIE SHELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1.0M → 9%MARIE SHELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1.0M → 9%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 8 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$31M
$855k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+6%

Still filing today

63%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +5%
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +183%
  • Children First Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $860k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • FS
    FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $575k · revenue +6%
  • LM
    LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its 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
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
2
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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7
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
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

The association of governing boards of universities and colleges advances higher education as a public good by preparing college, university, and foundation governing boards to fulfill their fiduciary duties and exemplify the highest…

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
Florida Keys Educational Foundation Inc

To provide financial and other essential support to further the mission and goals of the college of the florida keys (cfk).

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts; the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College. 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

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 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $9,295,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSHOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4,510,000 · OtherHOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGECOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 · Other+5 more: $151,940 · OtherFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,620,000 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCChildren First Inc: $860,000 · EducationChildren First IncFITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $3,005,000 · EnvironmentThe Marie …GIRLS INCORPORATED: $1,300,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $150,000 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $150,000 · Community Improvement
Other$14,581,940Education$13,075,000Environment$3,005,000Youth Development$1,300,000Philanthropy$400,000Community Improvement$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,620,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $3,005,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetChildren First Inc: $860,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $625,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $75,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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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 Elaine Nicpon Marieb Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elaine Nicpon Marieb Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Elaine Nicpon Marieb 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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