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The George and Judy Marcus Family 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.

$101k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE GEORGE AND JUDY MARCUS FAMILY 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.

02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$945k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT MEXICO$60,500
ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE$25,000
LOS ANGELES GREEK FILM FESTIVAL$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AVENIDAS CAMPAIGN AND BUILDING FUND: $250k → 8%GLORIA M SILVERIO FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%AVENIDAS CAMPAIGN AND BUILDING FUND: $10k → 8%AVENIDAS: $5k → 8%RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE: $1k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%AIM HIGH: $4k → 10%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $20k → 8%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

ND
IL
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
SC
DC
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 75 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

75 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 72 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
80

Total granted

$4.6M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+33%

Still filing today

61%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MA
    MONTALVO ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $471k · revenue +83%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $285k · revenue +55%
  • US
    UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • FP
    Francisco Park Conservancy
    one grant, 2019 · $400k · revenue -95%
  • TM
    THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +108%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - THE BIDEN SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $250k

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
7
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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8
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
9
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
10
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
12
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Palo Alto Community Fund and the most unlike its peers is Pandemonium Aviaries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr13%43%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
11%
5,912/53,879

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

86 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. 86 of the 159 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/86
Grantees still filing
54/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - THE BIDEN SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE — $250,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE - THE BIDEN SCHOOL AND INSTITUTEGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND (INSTALLMENT 2 OF 2) — $225,000 · OtherGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND (INSTALLMENT 2 OF 2)SAINT NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH — $153,000 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF SAN FRANCISCO (ARCHONS) — $130,000 · OtherTHE NEVADA INDEPENDENT — $125,000 · OtherPatriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute — $125,000 · Other+107 more — $2,147,815 · Other+107 moreMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $471,000 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASSO…National Hellenic Museum — $60,000 · Arts & CultureNational Hell…KQED INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCELIOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $53,000 · Arts & CultureELIOS CHARITA…Washington Oxi Day Foundation — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWashington Ox…SAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE — $35,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $61,450 · Arts & Culture+9 moreINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC — $450,000 · InternationalINT'L ORTH…HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC — $125,000 · InternationalHELLENIC I…+4 more — $24,000 · InternationalHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $285,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $244,500 · Animals+1 more — $3,000 · AnimalsAVENIDAS — $265,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesGLORIA M SILVERIO FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesFrancisco Park Conservancy — $400,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM - SILICON VALLEY — $55,000 · EducationBAY SCHOLARS — $50,000 · EducationUC LAW SF FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $12,700 · Education+3 more — $13,000 · Education
Other$3,555,815Arts & Culture$820,450International$599,000Animals$532,500Human Services$465,000Recreation & Sports$410,000Education$370,700

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 budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $471,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC — $450,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy — $400,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $285,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAVENIDAS — $265,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $244,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPatriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute — $125,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $81,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL — $75,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Hellenic Museum — $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKQED INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM - SILICON VALLEY — $55,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetELIOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetWashington Oxi Day Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetBAY SCHOLARS — $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES — $40,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS — $29,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUC LAW SF FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGLORIA M SILVERIO FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HOST COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $12,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOAKLAND MILITARY INSTITUTE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The George and Judy M…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Sobrato Family Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …The San Francisco Fou…The Bessemer Giving F…Atkinson FoundationKoret FoundationThe Applied Materials…
The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation IICA82.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Atkinson Foundation · Koret Foundation · The Applied Materials 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 George and Judy Marcus Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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

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How do I get to The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The George and Judy Marcus Family 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 159 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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