California · Private foundation
The Marin-Finn 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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $151k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Marin-Finn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $75k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $66k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $63k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $158k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $114k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $55k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Answers Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marist University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Veterans on Deck | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Newport Harbor Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| African Child Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Share Our Selves Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monsignor Scanlan High School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orange County Rescue Mission Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange | $80,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Answers Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marist University | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Veterans on Deck | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Newport Harbor Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| African Child Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Share Our Selves Corporation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monsignor Scanlan High School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Orange County Rescue Mission Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa Teresa Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catalina Island Search & Rescue Team | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Marin-Finn Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Marin-Finn Foundation
- How much does The Marin-Finn Foundation give?
- The Marin-Finn Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $74,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Marin-Finn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Religion (24%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are The Marin-Finn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mater Dei High School Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange ($80k), Catholic Answers Inc ($25k), Marist University ($25k).
- Does The Marin-Finn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Marin-Finn 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 Marin-Finn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
- Where is The Marin-Finn Foundation based?
- The Marin-Finn Foundation is based in CA.
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