· Private foundation
The Marcus Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $444k
- $50k–250k73 grants · $8.0M
- $250k+125 grants · $219M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $17,647,034 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $14,154,769 |
| AVALON NETWORK | $13,400,000 |
| HILLEL FDN FOR JEWISH CAMPUS | $10,575,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $9,396,848 |
| WEBER SCHOOL THE | $7,073,538 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,750,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CANCER | $6,183,361 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $6,140,364 |
| NEFESH B'NEFESH | $5,921,025 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES | $5,750,000 |
| MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA | $5,696,377 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT | $5,076,000 |
| IDI FOUNDATION INC | $3,800,000 |
| EMORY MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION | $3,519,161 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $29.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
238 repeat relationships — 174 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $30M · revenue +46%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM3× · 2020–2022 · $29M · revenue +198% · 26% of their budget
- FFFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $27M · revenue +117% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12M · revenue +62% · 27% of their budget- BCBOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5.3M · revenue +34%
- SCSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $4.0M · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Education Resource Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fuel Freedom Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
270 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 270 of the 364 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Selig Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Morris Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Diane and Guilford Glazer 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 Marcus Foundation Inc 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Florida Education Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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