· Private foundation
The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $559k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $536k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS | $2,000,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA | $200,000 |
| CROSSROAD INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS | $75,000 |
| COFAM | $60,750 |
| AHEPA CHARITABLE FUND | $50,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $30,000 |
| KAFENIA PEACE COLLECTIVE | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY | $27,500 |
| ELIOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| THE HELLENIC INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| PROJECT MEXICO | $25,000 |
| JOHN BURTON ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $427k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MAMONTALVO ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2023 · $5.3M · revenue +58% · 29% of their budget
- URUnited Religions6× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +97% · 56% of their budget
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY5× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25M · revenue -8%
- CRCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10M · revenue +70% · 90% of their budget
- FAFINE ARTS MUSEUMS FOUNDATION (RENEE DREYFUS ENDOWMENT)one grant, 2022 · $4.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Foundation of California and the most unlike its peers is Federation of Hellenic Societies Or Greater of Ny Inc. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
124 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. 124 of the 222 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United Religions ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROAD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds John Burton Advocates for Youth ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Washington Oxi Day Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ELIOS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James & Theodore Pedas Family Foundation Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Marin Community 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 II 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- The American College of Greece — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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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