Ohio · Private foundation
The Marks Family 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $527
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Marks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 6 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $47k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $52k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $81k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $27k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $11k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $5k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $8k | 94% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart's Caring Place Inc and Subsidiary | $31,525 | 7 | 2% |
| Temple Israel | $15,300 | 7 | n/a |
| Akron Soul Train | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Portage Path Behavioral Health | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Akron History Center | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Akron General Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| J&F Memorial Fund Inc | $1,750 | 1 | 2% |
| Akron Art Museum | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope and Healing Survivor Resource Center | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Marks Family 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: Lehner Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith Foundation · L R Moffitt & L W Moffitt Foundation · Synthomer Foundation Inc · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Charles E and Mabel M Ritchie Memorial · The Welty Family Foundation · United Way of Summit and Medina · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Marks Family Foundation
- How much does The Marks Family Foundation give?
- The Marks Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $5,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Marks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (22%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (19%).
- Who are The Marks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stewart's Caring Place Inc and Subsidiary ($32k), Temple Israel ($15k), Akron Soul Train ($5k).
- Does The Marks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Marks Family 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 Marks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehner Family Foundation, Akron Community Foundation, Gar Foundation.
- Where is The Marks Family Foundation based?
- The Marks Family Foundation is based in OH.
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