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The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc

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.

$123k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$123k25%
FY202411$194k27%
FY202310$121k30%
FY20229$191k33%
FY202112$135k33%
FY202011$130k27%
FY201912$129kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$351kEducation$233kHealth$128kReligion$89kEnvironment$75kHuman Services$71kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Urbanpromise Ministries$153,50071%
Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc$135,00033%
Villanova University$87,50070%
Natural Lands Trust Inc$75,00030%
Marina Orth Foundation$62,00065%
Carson Valley Children's Aid$35,00040%
ALS Hope Foundation$25,00014%
Boys & Girls Club of Gloucester County Inc$25,00012%
Come to Believe Foundation$20,00012%
The College Settlement of Philadelphia$20,00030%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$15,00010%
Russell Byers Charter School$15,00010%
Girls First$10,00014%
Starfinder Foundation$10,00011%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$10,00010%
Peter's Place$10,0002n/a
Adoption Center$10,00011%
School District of Philadelphia$8,5003n/a
The Parkesburg Point$7,50011%
The God's Child Project$5,00010%
Mothers' Home$4,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($278k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrbanpromise Ministries: $153,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMadison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc: $135,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetVillanova University: $87,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMarina Orth Foundation: $62,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCarson Valley Children's Aid: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALS Hope Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Gloucester County Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCome to Believe Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe College Settlement of Philadelphia: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRussell Byers Charter School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls First: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetStarfinder Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdoption Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Parkesburg Point: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe God's Child Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMothers' Home: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Td Charitable Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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About The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc

How much does The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc give?
The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $122,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Education (23%), Health (12%).
Who are The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Urbanpromise Ministries ($154k), Madison Square Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc ($135k), Villanova University ($88k).
Does The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc 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 Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.
Where is The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc based?
The Joseph and Carolyn Demarco Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 30 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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