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The Marc David Foundation at a glance

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The Marc David Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$406k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.6MInternational$344kHuman Services$343kHealth$279kCivil Rights$188kYouth Development$110kEmployment$35kReligion$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $278k
  • $250k+2 grants · $701k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA$405,907
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$294,909
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$103,436
MAZZONI CENTER$75,000
ACLU FOUNDATION PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$50,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$40,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$30,000
FEAST OF JUSTICE$25,000
PENN STATE ABINGTON$6,000
ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CENTER SCHOOL$4,000
REFORM CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL$1,800
BE A PART OF THE CONVERSATION$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $3k → 8%RED CROSS: $3k → 14%THE BRIGID ALLIANDCE: $10k → 17%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $26k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $25k → 22%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $101k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FAIRNESS PROJECT: $55k → 22%DELAWARE VALLEY FAIRNESS PROJECT: $50k → 22%DELAWARE VALLY FAIRNESS PROJECTS: $10k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 34 repeat orgs$433k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
33

Total granted

$6.4M
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+34%

Still filing today

53%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    4× · 2017–2020 · $295k · revenue +5%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • A
    AJWS
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • AF
    ACLU FOUNDATION OF PA
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +48%
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
6
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

—
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Simple Cycle Inc. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL: $2,960,853 · EducationABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOLTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $359,909 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $295,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Educa…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $188,000 · Education+6 more: $116,349 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,170,904 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIACOMMUNTIY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA: $353,500 · OtherCOMMUNTIY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIAJEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION PENNSYLVANIA: $95,000 · OtherMAZZONI CENTER: $80,000 · Other+36 more: $525,694 · Other+36 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $225,000 · InternationalCOMMON HOPE: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · International+5 more: $24,605 · InternationalWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $115,595 · Human ServicesDelaware Valley Fairness Project: $115,000 · Human ServicesFEAST OF JUSTICE: $50,600 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $103,436 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $6,200 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFriends of Suenos: $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENSHARP: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30,000 · Environment
Education$3,920,111Other$2,330,098International$309,605Human Services$296,195Health$136,636Youth Development$60,000Environment$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL: $2,960,853 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $359,909 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $295,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $225,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $188,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $115,595 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDelaware Valley Fairness Project: $115,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $103,436 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFEAST OF JUSTICE: $50,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL: $23,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Suenos: $16,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $15,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCODED BY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEENSHARP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPLE CYCLE INC: $3,450 over 1y, 58% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE A PART OF THE CONVERSATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Delaware Valley Fairness Project ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MAZZONI CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds FEAST OF JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Suenos ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
  • Who funds CODED BY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗

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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…Union Benevolent Asso…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…PhilabundanceVanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…
The William Penn FoundationPA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Union Benevolent Association · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Philabundance · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Marc David Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marc David Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Teensharp: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home