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The Marquis 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.

$345k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$513kFood & Nutrition$352kHealth$135kHousing & Shelter$101kPublic Safety & Disaster$49kYouth Development$40kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DOUGY CENTER$100,000
SNOW CAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES$40,000
MY FATHER'S HOUSE$30,000
NE EMERGENCY FOOD PROGRAM$30,000
BYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTER$25,000
CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$25,000
WE SHINE INITIATIVE INC$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES$17,250
BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE$16,500
TUALATIN FOOD PANTRY$10,000
MAINSPRING PORTLAND - DBA FISH EMERGENCY SERVICES$8,500
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FOR ROBERT MESHER$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $21k → 8%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $20k → 8%SNOW CAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $40k → 12%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $17k → 8%SNOW CAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $30k → 12%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $17k → 8%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $15k → 8%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $56k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $25k → 12%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

64%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalInternationalEducationOther
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

  • THE DOUGY CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $248k · revenue +83%
  • BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +87%
  • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +15%
  • MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • OB
    OPEN BIBLE STANDARD CHURCHES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Clackamas Service Center

Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.

Human Services
2
Operation Nightwatch - Portland

Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…

Health
3
Our Village Gardens

Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…

Food & Nutrition
4
Sheltercare

Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…

Housing & Shelter
5
The Wallace Medical Concern

We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.

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6
Portland Street Medicine

We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.

Health
7
F I S H of Orchards Inc

FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.

Food & Nutrition
8
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades

To improve the health and wellness of the medically uninsured or critically underserved through the engagement of professionals, community partners, and dedicated volunteers.

Health
9
Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.

Health
10
211INFO

Our central hub empowers oregon and southwest washington communities by helping people identify, navigate and connect with the local resources they need.

Health
11
Society of St Vincent De Paul of Portland Oregon

To provide compassion and support to individuals in need, regardless of race, origin, religion or gender.

—
12
Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Division Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clackamas Community College 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

16 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. 16 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOUGY CENTER INC: $248,000 · OtherTHE DOUGY CENTER INCNE EMERGENCY FOOD PROGRAM: $105,000 · OtherNE EMERGENCY FOOD PROGRAMBYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTER: $60,000 · OtherBYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTERFRANCIS CENTER: $52,000 · OtherFRANCIS CENTERMAINSPRING PORTLAND - DBA FISH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $48,500 · OtherMAINSPRING PORTLAND - DBA FISH EMERGENCY SERVICESSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $40,000 · OtherSELF ENHANCEMENT INC+6 more: $102,000 · Other+6 moreBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $87,800 · Human ServicesBLOOMIN BOUTIQUEOregon Community Warehouse Inc: $80,700 · Human ServicesOregon Community Wareho…SNOWCAP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 · Human ServicesSNOWCAP COMMUNITY SERVI…CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $17,250 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVI…CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $79,500 · HealthCLACKAMAS VO…VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthVIRGINIA GAR…SUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $105,000 · Crime & LegalSUNSHINE …MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMY FATHERS HOUSE: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · InternationalClackamas Community College Foundation: $4,000 · Education
Other$655,500Human Services$255,750Health$134,500Crime & Legal$105,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Housing & Shelter$30,000International$20,000Education$4,000

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 budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC: $248,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $87,800 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetOregon Community Warehouse Inc: $80,700 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $79,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSNOWCAP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFRANCIS CENTER: $52,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMY FATHERS HOUSE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESHINE INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $17,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClackamas Community College Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…Careoregon IncJuan Young TrustThe Swigert FoundationOnpoint Community Cre…The Autzen FoundationHillman Family Founda…Lamb FoundationThe Larson LegacyThe Robert D and Marc…
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Careoregon Inc · Juan Young Trust · The Swigert Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Lamb Foundation · The Larson Legacy · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine: 7% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Francis Center: 0% of income from government
  • Clackamas Community College Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The Marquis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marquis 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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