How much does The Margetts Foundation give?

The Margetts Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $12,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Margetts Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (13%).

Who are The Margetts Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Frost Valley YMCA ($129k), Kessler Foundation Inc ($18k), County College of Morris Foundation ($12k).

Does The Margetts Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Margetts Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Margetts Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation.

Where is The Margetts Foundation based?

The Margetts Foundation is based in FL.

The Margetts Foundation

The Margetts Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Margetts Foundation

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.

$12k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$138kPhilanthropy$46kEducation$41kArts & Culture$37kHealth$26kReligion$11kCommunity Improvement$5kEnvironment$4kOther$0

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$82k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Frost Valley YMCA	$2,500
Foundation for Enhancing Communities	$1,500
Community Foundation of NJ	$1,500
County College of Morris Foundation	$1,300
Friends of Boca Grande	$1,000
St Andrews Church	$1,000
Perry County Literacy Council	$750
Perry County Council of the Arts	$500
Gasparilla Island Conservation & Improvement Assoc	$500
Newport Revitalization & Preservation Society	$500
University of Virginia Law School Foundation	$500
Kessler Foundation	$500

02The need

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, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$276k · 57 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$276k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+13%

Still filing today

60%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

FV
FROST VALLEY YMCA
8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +42%
KF
Kessler Foundation Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +50%
CC
COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +75%

Funded once

RM
Ringling Museum and Art Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $2k
CF
Community Foundation of NJ Harding Twp
one grant, 2017 · $1k
SA
St Andrew's Episcopal Church
one grant, 2017 · $1k

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.

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education

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

St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Millersburg Ferry Boat Association. 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

45 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. 45 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

34/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$179,750Other$67,610Arts & Culture$28,625Education$27,250Philanthropy$8,250Environment$4,100Animals$800

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

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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Fletcher Foundation Inc · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Howe Family Foundation · Vick Foundation 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 Margetts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margetts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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