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The Marin-Finn Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$274kReligion$132kHousing & Shelter$88kHealth$13kInternational$11kEnvironment$11kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$151k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE BUILDERS$20,000
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL$13,900
CATHOLIC ANSWERS$10,000
MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
VETERANS ON DECK$5,000
MARIST BROTHERS$5,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORANGE$5,000
SISTERS OF ST JOSEPHS ORANGE$5,000
OUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRY$1,000
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 (FY22–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA TERESA: $1k → 11%SHARE OURSELVES: $5k → 10%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$468k · 13 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
20

Total granted

$468k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+27%

Still filing today

23%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • HB
    HOPE BUILDERS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $85k
  • MD
    MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $80k
  • VD
    VERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k

Funded once

  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +52%
  • MS
    MSGR SCANLAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • Share Our Selves Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +27%
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
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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2
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
3
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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4
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
5
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
6
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
7
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
10
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
11
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Newport Harbor 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

9 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. 9 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE BUILDERS: $85,000 · OtherHOPE BUILDERSMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE: $80,000 · OtherMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGEVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOLCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $62,500 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLOUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL: $37,900 · OtherOUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMELMARIST BROTHERS: $30,000 · OtherMARIST BROTHERSCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $25,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST JOSEPHS ORANGE: $25,000 · Other+18 more: $70,000 · Other+18 moreMARIST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationNEWPORT HARBOR FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 · HealthAFRICAN CHILD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalShare Our Selves Corporation: $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCATALINA ISLAND SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$490,400Education$25,000Philanthropy$11,000Health$10,500International$10,000Human Services$6,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC ANSWERS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN CHILD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN CHILD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
  • Who funds CATALINA ISLAND SEARCH & RESCUE TEAM ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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