· Private foundation
The Ethel Cox Marden Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of The Ethel Cox Marden Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Ethel Cox Marden Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $135k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k14 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Parks Foundation of Pender County Inc | $35,000 |
| Inova Health Foundation | $30,000 |
| Washington National Cathedral | $15,000 |
| Mount Vernon Ladies' Assoc | $10,000 |
| ALSAC St Jude's Children's | $5,000 |
| WETA | $5,000 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Tintagel Charitable Foundation | $4,000 |
| The Montpelier Foundation | $2,500 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Bldg Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | $2,500 |
| National Gallery of Art | $2,500 |
| Kennedy Center | $2,500 |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
16 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +8%
- TCTintagel Charitable Foundation3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +190% · 73% of their budget
- NGNational Gallery of Art3× · 2019–2021 · $23k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- PEPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF Cone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PPPlanned Parenthoodone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The Trust will be a leading force in the preservation of America's architectural heritage. The Trust accepts donations of historic preservation easements to protect buildings.
The purpose of the organization is to maintain in the city of alexandria, virginia, a suitable memorial temple to george washington, the mason, which expresses in durability and beauty, the exalted and undying esteem of the freemasons of…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
To support, in perpetuity, the preservation and conservation of the public rooms of the white house and its collection of fine and decorative arts.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS FOUNDATION OF PENDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Tintagel Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ethel Cox Marden Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ethel Cox Marden Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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