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The March Forth 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$945kCivil Rights$420kHousing & Shelter$250kHuman Services$200kPhilanthropy$185kInternational$181kHealth$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$63k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP$150,000
ALI FORNEY CENTER$150,000
TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT INC$100,000
CENTER FOR CINEMATIC AND EXPERIMENTAL ARTS$100,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC$100,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100,000
SAGE INC$100,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEALS FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$75,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$50,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI SEMITISM$50,000
KESHET INC$50,000
TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT INC$50,000
JQY INC$50,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$50,000
THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION$50,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI SEMITISM: $50k → 7%KESHET INC: $50k → 8%KESHET INC: $50k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150k → 14%BARD COLLEGE: $350k → 9%NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $150k → 17%EQNY FUND INC: $10k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALIN BEIT NOAM INC: $100k → 28%DTSBDC: $30k → 14%CENTER FOR CINEMATIC AND EXPERIMENTAL ARTS: $100k → 15%SOCIETY FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION & HEALTH: $10k → 16%VANGUARD THEATER COMPANY: $30k → 16%KESHET INC: $25k → 16%BARD COLLEGE: $325k → 9%FRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $25k → 17%MOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY: $30k → 14%VANGUARD THEATER COMPANY: $30k → 16%KESHET INC: $25k → 16%BARD COLLEGE: $325k → 9%CHABAD OF WEST VILLAGE: $12k → 17%DAN TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY: $30k → 14%VANGUARD THEATER COMPANY: $30k → 16%KESHET INC: $25k → 16%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $50k → 17%KESHET INC: $20k → 16%ALI FORNEY CENTER: $150k → 17%ALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $100k → 17%ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25k → 17%JQY INC: $50k → 17%SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $100k → 17%NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50k → 17%NYC SALT INC: $25k → 17%NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50k → 17%ZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $25k → 17%NYC SALT INC: $25k → 17%TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT INC: $150k → 17%TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT INC: $50k → 17%BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $50k → 17%ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $33k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $100k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%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
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
DC
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 10 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$2.2M
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $917k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BARD COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +151%
  • SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • KI
    KESHET INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $195k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALIN BEIT NOAM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • ND
    New DramatistsInc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -35%
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
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Jerusalem Connection
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4
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art

Arts & Culture
5
Sherit Isroel
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6
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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8
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
9
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington Dc Inc

Guided by jewish values and heritage, the edlavitch dc jewish community center (edcjcc) engages individuals and families through its cultural, recreational, educational, and social justice programs by welcoming people of all backgrounds to…

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10
The Ayin Institute Inc

The ayin institute, inc. (the organization") was formed on january 7, 2021 for the purpose of providing an artist-run publishing platform, production studio, and research collective rooted in jewish culture and emanating outward. the…

Arts & Culture
11
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
12
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel On Campus Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
14/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARD COLLEGE: $1,000,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE+2 more: $35,000 · EducationTectonic Theater Project Inc: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTectonic Theater Project …THE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATR…NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FEST…VANGUARD THEATER COMPANY: $90,000 · Arts & CultureVANGUARD THEATER COMPANYFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALA…New DramatistsInc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNew DramatistsIncMOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $200,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY F…CENTER FOR CINEMATIC AND EXPERIMENTAL ART: $100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CINEMATIC AN…JQY INC: $50,000 · OtherJQY INCDTSBDC: $30,000 · OtherDAN TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY: $30,000 · OtherGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $100,000 · OtherGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER I…ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $33,333 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOU…NYC SALT INC: $50,000 · OtherNYC SALT INCFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $55,000 · Other+5 moreKESHET INC: $195,000 · Civil RightsKESHET INCANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMAT…FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION T…ZIONESS MOVEMENT INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsZIONESS MOVE…Jewish Community Relations Council of New York: $25,000 · Civil RightsJewish Commu…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALIN BEIT NOAM INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 · Health
Education$1,035,000Arts & Culture$815,000Other$748,333Civil Rights$395,000Philanthropy$275,000Housing & Shelter$250,000Health$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKESHET INC: $195,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALIN BEIT NOAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVANGUARD THEATER COMPANY: $90,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNYC SALT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOVING FORWARD CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN DANCE COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Howard Gilman Fou…Axe-Houghton Foundati…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Shubert Foundatio…The Hyde and Watson F…FjcGs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fjc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 38 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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