How much did THE MARC BULGER FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE MARC BULGER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

children

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$402k

Total assets

Largest grants

CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK$25,000
SEMPER FIDELIS SOCIETY$5,000
PARKVIEW CHURCH$5,000
THE GAMECHANGER FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 87% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$127k · 7 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$127k

$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%

+156%

Still filing today

43%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

PF
PATRIOT FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +338%
WV
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2020–2021 · $26k · revenue +16%
FO
FOLDS OF HONOR
2× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +115%

Funded once

JR
JW RUBY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
one grant, 2019 · $100k
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OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROADgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +156%
MR
MOTOR RACING OUTREACH
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

The intrepid fallen heroes fund supports the men and women of the armed forces and their families.

Philanthropy

Marine Corps University Foundation Inc

Education

International Crane Foundation Inc

Animals

The Ironman Foundation Inc

To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making.

Philanthropy

Npr Foundation

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Troops First Foundation Incorporated

Providing meaningful assistance to our military wounded while serving in iraq and afghanistan.

Public Benefit

Military Health Research Foundation

The military health research foundation(mhrf) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of military medical research to benefit the health and safety of the men and women of the united states armed forces.

Science & Tech

Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc

To provide scholarships to the children of marines & navy corpsmen attending post-high school, undergraduate, and career technical education programs

Education

The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc

To protect lives and restore livelihoods of people affected by conflict.

International

Green Beret Foundation

Provide financial assistance, support, and liaising for the wounded, ill, injured and the family members (including killed in action) of the special forces regiment (green berets) when the care system does not cover the need directly…

Human Services

Special Operators Transition Foundation

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit

Warrior Reunion Foundation

Supports combat veterans in overcoming the challenges of post-military transition by reconnecting those who served together overseas through the execution of recovery reunions.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is Motor Racing Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

7/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$199,253Arts & Culture$75,000Education$33,082Recreation & Sports$30,000Religion$10,000Philanthropy$3,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE MARC BULGER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MOTOR RACING OUTREACH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581859610 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MOTOR RACING OUTREACH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Marc Bulger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marc Bulger Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MARC BULGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Marc Bulger Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE MARC BULGER FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Marc Bulger Foundation?

More from the funding graph