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The Marbill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$187kCivil Rights$45kReligion$36kPublic Benefit$21kSocial Science$10kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$750Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,250
Median grant
5
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ETHICS PUBLIC POLICY CENTER$20,000
SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA ED$20,000
SAINT MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH PARKCI$3,100
Legion of Christ$3,100
Egyptian Theatre$2,500
St Dominic's CathOLIC CHURCH SF$2,250
Nuzzles Co$1,250
MIGHTYCAUSE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Law School$1,000
CatholicCultureorg$300
Wasatch Mountain Inst$250
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Abigal Adams Institute: $13k → 8%Regnum Christi Missions: $10k → 7%LC Pastoral Services: $9k → 8%Napa Institute: $6k → 9%CBC Network: $16k → 9%Catholic Culture: $300 → 10%Joseph James Morelli: $1k → 10%CatholicCultureorg: $300 → 12%First Things: $10k → 17%Judicial Watch: $900 → 14%Legion of Christ College: $5k → 12%Nuzzles Co: $1k → 5%Father David Steffy: $2k → 4%LC Pastoral Services Inc: $17k → 13%Word on Fire: $500 → 14%MIGHTYCAUSE: $1k → 6%SBA Education Fund: $60k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Law School: $1k → 8%Bioethics and Culture: $15k → 9%Mission Dolores Academy: $5k → 10%The Institute on Religion andPublic: $5k → 17%Special Olympics: $500 → 14%Wasatch Mountain Inst: $250 → 5%Legion of Christ: $3k → 13%Charlotte Lozier Institute: $25k → 7%UVA Lawschool: $1k → 8%Center for Bioethics: $15k → 9%St Dominic's CathOLIC CHURCH SF: $2k → 10%The New Criterion: $2k → 17%EPPCOrg: $23k → 14%SAINT MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH PARKCI: $3k → 5%SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA ED: $20k → 7%University of Virginia Law: $1k → 8%Catholic Culture: $275 → 10%ETHICS PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $20k → 14%Egyptian Theatre: $3k → 5%St Mary of the Assumption: $3k → 10%St Marys of the Assumption Catholic: $1k → 5%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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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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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
4
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
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Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
American Press Institute Inc

American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…

Arts & Culture
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
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The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy

The mission of the claremont institute is to restore the principles of the american founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.

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Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education
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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Word On Fire Catholic Ministries. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 38 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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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SBA Education Fund — $60,000 · OtherSBA Education FundEPPCOrg — $22,500 · OtherEPPCOrgSUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA ED — $20,000 · OtherSUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA EDL C PASTORAL SERVICES INC — $16,932 · OtherL C PASTORAL SERVICES INCIndividual grant recipient — $16,077 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCenter for Bioethics — $15,000 · OtherCenter for BioethicsIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRegnum Christi Missions — $10,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC — $10,000 · OtherLC Pastoral Services — $9,273 · Other+18 more — $39,525 · Other+18 moreSusan B Anthony List Education Fund — $25,000 · Civil RightsSusan B A…ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $900 · Public BenefitThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $13,364 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationTHE NAPA INSTITUTE — $5,600 · ReligionWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $500 · ReligionPark City Performances — $2,500 · Arts & CultureSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$234,307Civil Rights$25,000Public Benefit$20,900Education$14,614Religion$6,100Arts & Culture$2,500Recreation & Sports$500

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 budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $13,364 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NAPA INSTITUTE — $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPark City Performances — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund
  • Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC
  • Who funds The Abigail Adams Institute Inc
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC
  • Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Park City Performances
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
  • Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES
  • Who funds WASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE

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.

Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncCT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Marbill 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Marbill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Marbill 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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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