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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.

$227M
Granted FY2024still arriving
221
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$18M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$217MEducation$215MReligion$171MInternational$118MHuman Services$54MYouth Development$30MPhilanthropy$24MPublic Benefit$22MOther$0
02FY2024 · 221 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $444k
  • $50k–250k73 grants · $8.0M
  • $250k+125 grants · $219M
$300,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$367M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC: $50k → 12%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $500k → 6%AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP: $500k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $100k → 4%SUPPORTING AND HELPING ASYLEES AND REFUGEES: $29k → 9%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1.0M → 6%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $500k → 6%AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $100k → 4%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1.0M → 6%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $25k → 4%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $5.3M → 7%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1.0M → 6%PROJECT LEGACY: $150k → 20%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $100k → 13%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $35k → 6%KAVOD: $25k → 12%KAVOD: $150k → 12%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $50k → 13%KAVOD: $150k → 12%KAVOD: $150k → 12%KAVOD: $150k → 12%ENTER THE JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD ALLIANCE: $250k → 11%THE HOMER FUND: $250k → 8%THE HOMER FUND: $250k → 8%ENTER THE JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD ALLIANCE: $250k → 11%THE HOMER FUND: $100k → 8%ENTER THE JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD ALLIANCE: $250k → 11%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $100k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $40k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $40k → 14%VENTURES ATL: $285k → 13%VENTURES ATL: $150k → 13%VENTURES ATL: $126k → 13%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $6.1M → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $5.7M → 14%VENTURES ATL: $60k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $954k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $719k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $556k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $450k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $403k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $286k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA: $177k → 14%MATAN INC: $36k → 17%AURORA DAY CAMP: $100k → 13%AURORA DAY CAMP: $100k → 13%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

VT
NH
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
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.
$877M · 238 repeat orgs$55M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

238
76

Total granted

$877M
$31M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+9%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BO
    BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $62M · revenue +255% · 72% of their budget
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30M · revenue +46%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $29M · revenue +198% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12M · revenue +62% · 27% of their budget
  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5.3M · revenue +34%
  • SC
    SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4.0M · revenue +8%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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2
The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International
3
Jewish Electorate Institute

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…

Civil Rights
4
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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…

International
6
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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11
Israel 21c

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.

Education
12
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Israel Education Resource Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

271 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. 271 of the 364 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.

52
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
265/271
Grantees still filing
198/271
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMORY UNIVERSITY: $63,483,619 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION: $26,854,227 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATIONHILLEL FDN FOR JEWISH CAMPUS: $19,725,000 · OtherHILLEL FDN FOR JEWISH CAMPUSHILLEL INTERNATIONAL CHARLES AND LYNN SCHUSTERMAN: $18,493,670 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,050,687 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $14,353,565 · OtherBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $16,225,000 · Other+89 more: $189,847,694 · Other+89 moreBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $61,822,928 · ReligionBOARD OF JEWIS…Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $13,700,663 · ReligionNefesh B'Nefes…ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC: $12,589,349 · ReligionISRAEL EDUCATI…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $11,930,393 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOU…ONETABLE INC: $4,850,000 · Religion+15 more: $18,038,000 · Religion+15 morePiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $54,885,757 · HealthPiedmont Healt…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $30,050,480 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERS…THE AVALON NETWORK INC: $24,729,000 · HealthTHE AVALON NET…GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $4,902,822 · Health+6 more: $8,253,375 · Health+6 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $28,808,683 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $26,800,000 · InternationalFoundation for…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,178,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISR…Spirit of America Worldwide: $8,500,000 · InternationalSpirit of Amer…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $6,775,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE…IMPACTISRAEL INC: $6,500,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL I…ITREK INC: $5,030,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · InternationalTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC: $4,800,000 · InternationalAFSNC INC: $4,000,000 · International+12 more: $12,496,741 · International+12 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $19,960,152 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSIT…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $12,236,054 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $11,500,000 · EducationPASSAGES AMERI…THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,544,936 · EducationTHE FELICIA PE…ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $8,890,500 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMP…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,556,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $6,971,300 · EducationKipp Metro Atl…GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,620,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,385,146 · Education+18 more: $18,206,168 · Education+18 moreSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,799,497 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $8,907,364 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $7,812,936 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $6,701,742 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $4,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2,200,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $7,422,367 · PhilanthropyMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $12,576,860 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $5,250,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,210,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $2,812,561 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $1,000,000 · Human Services+5 more: $3,146,000 · Human Services
Other$363,033,462Religion$122,931,333Health$122,821,434International$118,889,724Education$118,370,256Philanthropy$62,843,906Human Services$27,995,421

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $61,822,928 over 5y, 72% of budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $54,885,757 over 3y, 53% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $30,050,480 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $28,808,683 over 3y, 26% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $26,800,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetTHE AVALON NETWORK INC: $24,729,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $19,960,152 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $16,225,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $14,353,565 over 5y, 25% of budgetNefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc: $13,700,663 over 4y, 56% of budgetISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC: $12,589,349 over 5y, 43% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $12,576,860 over 5y, 13% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $12,236,054 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $11,930,393 over 1y, 27% of budgetPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $11,500,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetTHE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,544,936 over 5y, 22% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,178,500 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $8,907,364 over 5y, 42% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $8,890,500 over 5y, 27% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $8,500,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetTEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC: $8,000,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $7,812,936 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,556,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500,000 over 5y, 84% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $6,971,300 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $6,775,800 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $6,701,742 over 3y, 19% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $6,500,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $6,500,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $6,063,410 over 5y, 72% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,620,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budget3DE NATIONAL LLC: $5,500,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $5,250,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetITREK INC: $5,030,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $4,902,822 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetONETABLE INC: $4,850,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC: $4,800,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $4,500,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,385,146 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetAFSNC INC: $4,000,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $4,000,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $4,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,891,096 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $3,825,000 over 5y, 2.8% 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 BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AVALON NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds Nefesh B'Nefesh Jewish Souls United Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FELICIA PENZELL WEBER JEWISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds Spirit of America Worldwide ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …The Shimon Ben Joseph…United Jewish Appeal-…Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…The Selig Foundation …The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Community Foundat…Morris Family Foundat…Combined Jewish Phila…Michael and Andrea Le…Jewish Federation of …The Diane and Guilfor…
Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta IncGA93.8× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Marcus Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 364 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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$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