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The J Willard and Alice S Marriott 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.

$59M
Granted FY2025still arriving
101
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$8.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $5.4M
  • $250k+58 grants · $53M
$250,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$442M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$8,000,000
BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK$5,050,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$5,000,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$3,950,761
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARRIOTT DISASTER RELIEF FUND (MA$2,000,000
SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,500,000
MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,250,000
UNITY HEALTH CARE INC$1,075,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,018,492
HUGGINS HOSPITAL$1,000,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES$1,000,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY THRIVE CENTER FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES$1,000,000
WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY$1,000,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $250k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $300k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $175k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $100k → 14%BRIDGES FROM SCHOOL TO WORK: $5.0M → 8%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $250k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 14%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

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MA
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VA
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DC

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 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.

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Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
2
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
3
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
4
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
Dc Preparatory Academy

Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…

Education
7
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
8
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
9
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
10
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
11
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

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12
Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jubilee Jumpstart. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%15%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr14%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr14%39%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
14%
3,772/27,585

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.

03the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 80 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
24/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $5,880,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,018,492 · OtherCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARRIOTT DISASTER RELIEF FUND (MA — $2,000,000 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARRI…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY THRIVE CENTER FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES — $1,700,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY THRIVE CENTER FOR CHILDRE…MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,250,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — $1,120,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $1,094,429 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES — $1,000,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · OtherHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $865,000 · Other+25 more — $4,528,334 · Other+25 moreMAYO CLINIC — $8,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $1,935,000 · HealthUNITY HEALTH CARE INCHuggins Hospital — $1,596,883 · HealthHuggins HospitalSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION …IDENTITY INC — $647,192 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $533,333 · Health+6 more — $1,129,135 · Health+6 moreBridges from School to Work Inc — $5,050,000 · Human ServicesBridges from…MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesMAMATOTO VIL…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $250,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $250,000 · Human Services+2 more — $275,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $3,950,761 · PhilanthropyIMPACT SILVER SPRING — $150,000 · PhilanthropyThe George Washington University — $750,000 · EducationDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $500,000 · EducationAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $375,000 · EducationSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS — $350,000 · EducationDIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $300,000 · EducationCARLOS ROSARIO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $200,000 · EducationCITYWORKS DC — $200,000 · EducationBRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $150,000 · Education+5 more — $475,000 · EducationCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,119,049 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $700,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $500,000 · Food & NutritionThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation — $300,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $50,000 · Food & NutritionWorkSource Montgomery Inc — $850,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $808,333 · Community ImprovementBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $620,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT EQUITY — $275,000 · Community Improvement
Other$24,456,255Health$15,341,543Human Services$6,225,000Philanthropy$4,100,761Education$3,300,000Food & Nutrition$2,769,049Community Improvement$2,553,333

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 budgetBridges from School to Work Inc — $5,050,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,119,049 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWorkSource Montgomery Inc — $850,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetThe George Washington University — $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $700,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIDENTITY INC — $647,192 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $375,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS — $350,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $350,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $333,334 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $325,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDIGITAL PIONEERS ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $300,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $300,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT EQUITY — $275,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEVERYMIND INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCARLOS ROSARIO INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITYWORKS DC — $200,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR MINDS MATTER — $175,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetEDUCARE DC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIMPACT SILVER SPRING — $150,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $104,135 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart — $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMontgomery County Childrens Opportunity Alliance — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CLUBS OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY RENTERS ALLIANCE — $75,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Clark Charitable Foun…Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Philip L Graham Fund …Richard E & Nancy P M…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Clark-Winchcole Found…Adventist Healthcare …United Way of the Nat…Nora Roberts Foundati…Diane & Norman Bernst…If Foundation
Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark FoundationMD44.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc · If 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 J Willard and Alice S Marriott 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Bridges from School to Work Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
24report 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

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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How do I get to The J Willard and Alice S Marriott Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The J Willard and Alice S Marriott 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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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