· Private foundation
The Marian 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mamabird Alumni Mentorship Association | $6,000 |
| American Dance Festival | $1,000 |
| PBS Foundation | $1,000 |
| NPR | $1,000 |
| Book Harvest | $500 |
| Triangle Land Conservancy | $500 |
| HL Ferguson Museum | $500 |
| Prison Mindfulness Institute | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | $300 |
| Interfaith Food Shuttle | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| USA Ultimate Fund | $200 |
| Rocking the Boat NYC | $200 |
| Stark Mountain Foundation | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +8%
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +7%
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +528%
Funded once
- CECOOL EARTH ACTION USA INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $600
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +66%
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Protection and expansion of threatened urban and wildland forest ecosystems. See Part III
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 125 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAMABIRD ALUMNI MENTORSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKING THE BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds TRICYCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Designed For Joy ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Impactassetsinc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- American Hiking Society: 14% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- James F Farr Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Marian Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Marian Foundation 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.
Play a game based on Marian’s filings →