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The Markus Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$126kHuman Services$43kHealth$39kInternational$35kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$4kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$625
Median grant
10
States reached
$707k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTGATE CHURCH$10,048
HEART TRUST INC$2,500
MOBILE HOPE$2,500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$2,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,700
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS$1,500
SMILE TRAIN$1,500
MERCY SHIPS$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
INTERFAITH OUTREACHCOMMUNITY PARTNERS$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$800
DUCKS UNLIMITED$625
MN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$500
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 (FY19–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $500 → 12%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $575 → 8%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$249k · 36 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
41

Total granted

$249k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+32%

Still filing today

56%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalReligionFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • MH
    Mobile Hope
    8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +710%
  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +55%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • WE
    Wayzata Evangical Free Church
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • PH
    Project Hope
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $3k

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 Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Medical Teams International

Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.

International
7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
11
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

12
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsVeteran Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesHomeless Services & ShelterEducation Equity LeadershipGovernment Accountability R…Cancer Support OrganizationsPublic Library SupportChristian Youth CampsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Child and Family ServicesLand Conservation Organizat…Food Pantries & AssistanceChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr18%49%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,948

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

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTGATE CHURCH — $90,898 · OtherWESTGATE CHURCHWounded Warriors — $13,500 · OtherWounded WarriorsCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $13,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESMiscellaneous — $11,030 · OtherWayzata Evangical Free Church — $11,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $11,000 · Other+58 more — $61,426 · Other+58 moreMobile Hope — $16,544 · ReligionMobile Ho…SAMARITAN'S PURSE — $8,950 · ReligionSAMARITAN…+1 more — $103 · ReligionHEART TRUST INC — $13,750 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $4,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,650 · Health+3 more — $600 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $9,950 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $5,250 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC — $1,500 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $1,000 · InternationalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $8,500 · EducationGifts for Seniors — $2,000 · EducationMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,602 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $1,050 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $100 · Food & NutritionLeadership Institute — $1,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $250 · Public Benefit
Other$211,854Religion$25,597Health$21,000International$17,700Education$10,500Food & Nutrition$3,752Public Benefit$1,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMobile Hope — $16,544 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHEART TRUST INC — $13,750 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $9,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $8,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $4,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,602 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGifts for Seniors — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $1,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLAMING PINE YOUTH CAMP — $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America — $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF — $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN MINISTRIES — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUREPSP INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Mobile Hope
  • Who funds HEART TRUST INC
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds Gifts for Seniors
  • Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds FLAMING PINE YOUTH CAMP
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation

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.

The US Charitable Gift TrustMA11.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Markus Charitable Foundation 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Markus Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Markus Charitable 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.

    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 85 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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