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The Gerald & Linda Marsden Foundation at a glance

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The Gerald & Linda Marsden Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$234kEducation$77kHealth$45kArts & Culture$12kReligion$8kCivil Rights$5kInternational$4kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
10
States reached
$436k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWELL HEALTH$6,200
STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$5,000
SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$4,950
UJA$2,500
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION$2,500
NYU LANGONE$1,500
Tiegerman Schools$1,350
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL$1,000
AARPFOUNDATION$950
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$850
Jewish National Fund$500
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$500
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$500
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$500
THIRTEEN$400
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VISCARDI CENTER: $200 → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $250 → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $200 → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $128k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $27k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $24k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 17%DOROT: $200 → 17%Dorot: $150 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$405k · 64 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
39

Total granted

$405k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+6%

Still filing today

42%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SJ
    SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $224k · revenue +26%
  • SH
    Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +103%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SA
    SEAVER AUTISM CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +3%
  • GC
    GLEN COVE HOSPITALgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +29%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
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
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
9
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
10
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is West Islip Breast Cancer Coalition for Long Island Inc. 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

47 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. 47 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $223,940 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER+6 more: $4,325 · Human ServicesUJA: $26,100 · OtherUJANYU LANGONE: $15,725 · OtherNYU LANGONETIEGERMAN SCHOOL: $8,540 · OtherTIEGERMAN SCHOOLHUNTER COLLEGE: $7,250 · OtherHUNTER COLLEGETIGERMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $4,445 · OtherSTUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL: $4,075 · OtherHADASSAH: $4,000 · Other+67 more: $47,333 · Other+67 moreStuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc: $23,500 · EducationStuyvesan…THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE HUNTE…NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,714 · Education+4 more: $1,400 · EducationTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $11,500 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,710 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,350 · HealthGLEN COVE HOSPITAL: $1,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $900 · Health+4 more: $1,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $11,200 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $750 · Community ImprovementSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,650 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,625 · Arts & CultureURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $400 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $210 · Arts & CultureJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,490 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 · International
Human Services$228,265Other$117,468Education$36,614Health$19,460Community Improvement$11,950Arts & Culture$6,385International$3,990

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 budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $223,940 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetStuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc: $23,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIEGERMAN SCHOOL: $8,540 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $3,490 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,625 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $2,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $1,825 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,714 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,710 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN COVE HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANHASSET WOMEN'S COALITION AGAINST BREAST CANCER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST ISLIP BREAST CANCER COALITION FOR LONG ISLAND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOHEN MOE J FBO JEWISH FEDERATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL: $100 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TIEGERMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds GLEN COVE HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND 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.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gerald & Linda Marsden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerald & Linda Marsden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 108 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home