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The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
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.

Arts & Culture$257kHousing & Shelter$75kCommunity Improvement$71kFood & Nutrition$43kRecreation & Sports$30kPhilanthropy$13kPublic Benefit$11kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$60,000
CENTER FOR HOUSTON'S FUTURE$12,000
AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMPS$10,000
PEOPLEFUND$10,000
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL$10,000
CAREER RECOVERY RESOURCES$5,000
HUNTINGTON SCULPTURE FOUNDATION$5,000
PRIMARY STAGES$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIRROR MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$405k · 12 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
22

Total granted

$405k
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsReligionHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • AT
    AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +155%
  • TB
    Texas Book Festival
    7× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +90%
  • CO
    CARITAS OF AUSTIN
    2× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $26k
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
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
2
Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture
3
Austin City Art Fund

To support the production and exhibition of art and film

Arts & Culture
4
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
5
Austin Creative Alliance

The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.

Arts & Culture
6
Austin Creative Reuse

Fostering conservation and reuse through creativity, education, and community building.

Human Services
7
Austin Public Library Friends Foundation

Support and strengthen austin public libraries

Education
8
Austin Rainbow Theatre

Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.

Arts & Culture
9
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
10
Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts Inc

We're here to inspire generations. we connect people and strengthen community by showcasing unforgettable performances across genres, providing life-changing arts education programs, and dreaming up magical experiences in iconic venues…

Arts & Culture
11
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
12
Austin Playhouse

Austin Playhouse creates opportunities for artists and audiences to celebrate the human experience through professional theatrical productions that nourish minds, delight spirits, and enrich lives.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoplefund; the most unlike its peers is Moss Pieratt Foundation. 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

24 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. 24 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARITAS OF AUSTIN: $60,000 · OtherCARITAS OF AUSTINIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHELPING HAND HOME: $15,000 · OtherHELPING HAND HOMERATTLESTICK THEATER: $10,000 · Other+14 more: $37,750 · Other+14 moreAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $130,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCEPrimary Stages Company Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePrimary Stages Company IncTheatre Gap Initiative: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Gap Initiative+5 more: $8,000 · Arts & CulturePEOPLEFUND: $56,500 · Community ImprovementPEOPLEFUNDWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWATERLOO GREENW…Center for Houston's Future Inc: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for Hous…+1 more: $2,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Book Festival: $62,500 · Recreation & SportsTexas Book Fe…AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsAUSTIN YMBL S…Pease Park Conservancy: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPease Park Co…MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $40,000 · ReligionTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $11,250 · EducationCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC: $5,000 · Employment
Other$274,550Arts & Culture$173,000Community Improvement$90,500Recreation & Sports$77,500Religion$40,000Education$11,250Employment$5,000

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 budgetAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $130,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Book Festival: $62,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLEFUND: $56,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $25,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $11,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOTUS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetMirror Ministries: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMoss Pieratt Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESERVATION AUSTIN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShoal Creek Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAustin Film Festival Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Better Business BureauThe Cynthia & George …The Moody FoundationThe Applied Materials…Austin Community Foun…Still Water FoundationThe Webber Family Fou…Greater Austin Perfor…The Seawell Elam Foun…Buena Vista FoundationMfi FoundationAlice Kleberg Reynold…
Better Business BureauTX25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greg and Mari Marchbanks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–75%
    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 39 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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