Texas · Private foundation
The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $117k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $85k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $93k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $94k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $22k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $88k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $76k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Theatre Alliance | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Book Festival | $62,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Caritas of Austin | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Peoplefund | $56,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Primary Stages Company Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Waterloo Greenway Conservancy | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Houston's Future Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $11,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Theatre Gap Initiative | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Theatre Alliance | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Book Festival | $62,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Caritas of Austin | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Peoplefund | $56,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Primary Stages Company Inc | $25,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Waterloo Greenway Conservancy | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Houston's Future Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Tribune Inc | $11,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Theatre Gap Initiative | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Austin Ymbl Sunshine Camp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Huntington Sculpture Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Career & Recovery Resources Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pease Park Conservancy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lotus Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Mirror Ministries | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Ballet Austin Incorporated | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Moss Pieratt Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Preservation Austin | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Film Society of Austin Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Shoal Creek Conservancy | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Austin Film Festival Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Playwrights Horizons Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Child Protection | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Better Business Bureau · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Still Water Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · The Seawell Elam Foundation · Buena Vista Foundation · Mfi Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800
How this is measured
Compare The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation
- How much does The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation give?
- The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Housing & Shelter (11%), Community Improvement (10%).
- Who are The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Austin Theatre Alliance ($130k), Texas Book Festival ($63k), Caritas of Austin ($60k).
- Does The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Better Business Bureau, The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, The Moody Foundation.
- Where is The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation based?
- The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation is based in TX.
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