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The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$276kHuman Services$249kEducation$180kArts & Culture$160kRecreation & Sports$128kYouth Development$118kFood & Nutrition$73kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$10,000
LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF$10,000
CHARLESTON COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
PATTISON'S ACADEMY$10,000
VISIONS TO LEARN$8,500
FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME$8,500
CAMP RISE ABOVE$8,000
TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$7,500
LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC$7,500
USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION$7,500
CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC$7,500
OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICE$7,500
CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC$7,500
ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC$5,000
SC CENTER FOR BIRDS OF PREY$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 11%CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 11%CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 11%CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 11%CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY: $1k → 11%BEYOND BASICS LIFE SKILLS: $1k → 11%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%THE LONON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%THE LONON FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%TEACHER'S SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER INC: $3k → 12%BRIDGES FOR END-OF-LIFE: $3k → 12%BRIDGES FOR END-OF-LIFE: $2k → 12%BRIDGES FOR END-OF-LIFE: $2k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $3k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $3k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $3k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 61 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+12%

Still filing today

77%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +55%
  • TT
    TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +2%
  • CA
    CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $51k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CK
    Courageous Kidz Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -6%
  • CU
    CHARLESTON URBAN SQUASH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • LF
    Landmarks for Families Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
2
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
3
Charleston Academy of Music

The Charleston Academy of Music is committed to providing access to exceptional music education, performance and community outreach to all, regardless of age, skill, gender, ethnicity or income.

Arts & Culture
4
South Carolina Children's Theatre

Empowering and inspiring a new generation of changemakers through theatre. at scct, we define a changemaker as: someone who has empathy for others and is driven to make the world a better place. someone who is inquisitive, open minded, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
6
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
7
Children's Center at Usc

Our mission is to provide the best quality education and care for children and to become a national model for early childhood education. in addition to providing a healthy learning environment for children, the center also provides an…

Education
8
Charleston Collegiate School

Charleston Collegiate Schools mission is to inspire students to become passionate, lifelong learners by empowering them with knowledge, creativity, curiosity and confidence to mindfully embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.

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9
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
10
South Carolina Childrens Fund

To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.

Education
11
Columbia Childrens Theatre

Inspired by the intelligence and emotional wisdom of young people, we create professional theatre for youth and families, foster inclusive community, and nurture meaningful learning through the arts. We provide these experiences through…

Arts & Culture
12
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wings for Kids and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%6%<5yr17%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr8%21%35–55yr14%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%1%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%36%20–35yr8%27%35–55yr14%9%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/60
the rest of the field
15%
346/2,384

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
38/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $70,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME — $41,800 · OtherFLORENCE CRITTENTON HOMEOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES — $37,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICESCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC — $34,500 · OtherCAMP HAPPY DAYS INCASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $33,500 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIR…CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPEMENT CENTER — $30,000 · OtherCAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPEMENT CENTERDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CENTER — $30,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CENTERLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $24,000 · OtherLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $17,500 · OtherHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT — $17,500 · Other+25 more — $166,500 · Other+25 moreUSS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION — $47,500 · Arts & CultureUSS YORKTOWN FOU…Charleston County Parks Foundation Inc — $47,500 · Arts & CultureCharleston Count…Children's Museum of the Lowcountry — $31,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museu…CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON STAGE…CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $12,500 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON SYMPH…CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART — $12,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA ART ASS…Charleston Jazz — $9,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $7,500 · Arts & CultureLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $44,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY OR…TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET — $35,000 · Human ServicesTEACHERS SUPP…WINGS FOR KIDS — $25,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KID…HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION — $21,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AND P…KAY PHILLIPS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesKAY PHILLIPS …BRIDGES OF HOPE — $6,500 · Human Services+4 more — $12,000 · Human Services+4 moreTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,500 · EducationTRIDENT TECHN…PATTISON'S ACADEMY — $45,000 · EducationPATTISON'S AC…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS — $13,000 · EducationAMERICAN COLL…ENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS — $11,000 · EducationENGAGING CREA…The Charleston Promise Neighborhood — $8,500 · EducationThe Charlesto…CHARLESTON HOPE — $5,500 · EducationTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 · Education+3 more — $7,000 · EducationCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $50,500 · HealthCHARLESTON…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $26,900 · HealthRONALD MCD…Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc — $20,000 · HealthWindwood F…VISION TO LEARN — $8,500 · HealthVISION TO …Courageous Kidz Inc — $7,000 · HealthCourageous…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthCAMP RISE ABOVE INC — $50,500 · Recreation & SportsKIDS ON POINT INC — $22,500 · Recreation & SportsGOING PLACES — $14,000 · Recreation & SportsYO ART INC — $21,700 · Youth DevelopmentCAROLINA STUDIO CORPORATION — $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentBE A MENTOR INC — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$502,800Arts & Culture$185,500Human Services$154,500Education$145,500Health$120,400Recreation & Sports$87,000Youth Development$56,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $50,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCAMP RISE ABOVE INC — $50,500 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetUSS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCharleston County Parks Foundation Inc — $47,500 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetPATTISON'S ACADEMY — $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $44,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES — $37,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET — $35,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC — $34,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry — $31,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $26,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS — $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYO ART INC — $21,700 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetCAROLINA STUDIO CORPORATION — $21,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWindwood Farm Home For Children Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC — $18,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT — $17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCharleston Horticultural Society — $15,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGOING PLACES — $14,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKAY PHILLIPS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS — $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYESCAROLINA — $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCharleston Jazz — $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Charleston Promise Neighborhood — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBE A MENTOR INC — $8,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCourageous Kidz Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE — $6,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMALLS INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC & YOUTH LEADERSHIP — $4,500 over 2y, 28% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP RISE ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Charleston County Parks Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATTISON'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds YO ART INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA STUDIO CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Horticultural Society ↗
  • Who funds GOING PLACES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds KAY PHILLIPS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS ↗
  • Who funds YESCAROLINA ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Joanna FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Daniel Island Communi…Employees Community F…Post and Courier Foun…Trident United WayCentral Carolina Comm…Medical Society of So…Beyond Our Gates Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC85× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Post and Courier Foundation · Trident United Way · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Medical Society of South Carolina · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · Td Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Mark Elliott Motley 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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