How much did THE MARCUS ALLEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE MARCUS ALLEN 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

2022

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2023

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2024

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

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$494k

Total assets

Largest grants

YOUNG WARRIORS$25,000
LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA$25,000
JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION$25,000
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE$12,500
TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION$12,500
MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
THE LIFE RING FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY CANCER FUND$10,000
HAPPY HABITS FOUNDATION$10,000

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 78% of those 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 44% of THE MARCUS ALLEN FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE MARCUS ALLEN FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation

The los angeles dodgers foundation is the official team charity of the los angeles dodgers.

Recreation & Sports

William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation

Promotes advances in cancer research through collaboration

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Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc

Led by former baseball greats, cal ripken, jr. and bill ripken, the cal ripken sr. foundation, inc., through active community partnerships with america's most successful youth service organizations, teaches underserved children from…

Education

Jack Harlow Foundation Inc

Transforming the lives of those living with financial need in greater louisville and beyond

Philanthropy

Koenig Childhood Cancer Foundation

Koenig childhood cancer foundation (kccf) provides life-saving financial and emotional assistance to kids battling cancer and their families.

Philanthropy

Miracles for Kids Inc

Miracles for kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression so they can focus on fighting for their child's life.

Recreation & Sports

Women's Foundation of California

Women's foundation of california amplifies the voices and experiences of community leaders, redistributes knowledge, power, and resources, and mobilizes communities and funders to advance justice for all.

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Lubin - Green Foundation

Support of the jewish federation functions and activities in the st. louis region and elsewhere.

Philanthropy

Mary Kay Ash Foundation

Provide support for irc sec 501(c)(3) organizations involved in raising and distributing funds to invest in breakthrough cancer research and clinical trials to find a cure for women-related cancers and ending domestic violence.

Philanthropy

Friends of Kids With Cancer

Supporting children undergoing treatment for, and survivors of, cancer and blood-related diseases.

Human Services

Children's Foundation of America

To provide an opportunity for every person to help children heal, learn and thrive.

Education

Celebrities Fore Kids Inc

Supporting children battling and affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses throughout south florida.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Miracle House Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

11 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)

11/11

Grantees still filing

9/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$275,000Recreation & Sports$95,000Human Services$45,000Youth Development$45,000Philanthropy$22,500Health$12,500

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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation THE MARCUS ALLEN 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

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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.

04Through 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: YOUNG WARRIORS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 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 800569820 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 YOUNG WARRIORS, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 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 15% 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 Marcus Allen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marcus Allen 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 MARCUS ALLEN 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?

Where the work is directed

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Marcus Allen Foundation?

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THE MARCUS ALLEN 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?

Where the work is directed

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Marcus Allen Foundation?

More from the funding graph