· Private foundation
The Markus Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTGATE CHURCH | $10,048 |
| HEART TRUST INC | $2,500 |
| MOBILE HOPE | $2,500 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,700 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $1,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACHCOMMUNITY PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $800 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $625 |
| METRO MEALS ON WHEELS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMobile Hope8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +710%
- IOINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +58%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- WEWayzata Evangical Free Churchone grant, 2018 · $11k
- PHProject Hopeone grant, 2017 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
(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.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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;…
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
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…
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 FLAMING PINE YOUTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Markus Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Markus Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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