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The Marsal Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$5.2M
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$19MHuman Services$4.1MEducation$962kPublic Safety & Disaster$534kRecreation & Sports$510kReligion$405kArts & Culture$347kPhilanthropy$92kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $478k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
$2,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$5,155,000
GLADNEY FUND$650,000
HAVE FAITH HATT MISSION$200,000
RARE VILLAGE Foundation$100,000
CARDIGAN MT SCHOOL$95,000
Individual grant recipient$83,000
IGNITENATIONAL$28,750
WESTHAB INC$25,000
MILLBROOK SCHOOL$25,000
HORIZONS OF NEW CANAN COUNTY SCHOOL$20,000
LA SALLE FUND - UNIVERSITY$20,000
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society$20,000
Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation$15,000
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House$10,000
Institute for the Study of War$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLOTHING OUR KIDS: $3k → 10%GIVE FOUNDATION: $82k → 8%THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY: $4k → 15%FISH of Sanibel: $3k → 11%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%KELLY GIBSON Foundation: $500 → 11%The Port Chester Carver Center: $3k → 9%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $500 → 11%CHAD TOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $500 → 11%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA: $500 → 11%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $10k → 17%Mount Kisco Child Care Center: $3k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $2k → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $500 → 9%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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RI
CA
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FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 60 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
69

Total granted

$26M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +202%
  • CF
    COPD FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $235k · revenue +34%
  • TN
    THE NEW GROUP INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $177k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMPLETE PLAYGROUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +164% · 36% of their budget
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY MAIN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • CF
    CBS Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
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.

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Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
7
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite; the most unlike its peers is Alvarez & Marsal 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

82 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. 82 of the 160 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
58/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $17,520,100 · OtherUniversity of MichiganTHE GLADNEY FUND: $3,963,552 · OtherTHE GLADNEY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $1,160,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $855,000 · Other+110 more: $1,754,982 · Other+110 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $370,000 · EducationMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $101,000 · EducationLA SALLE SCHOOL: $72,500 · EducationCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $65,000 · EducationIGNITE: $28,750 · Education+8 more: $49,000 · EducationALVAREZ & MARSAL FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $5,600 · Public Safety & DisasterCOPD FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · HealthRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $40,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $35,000 · HealthGARRET'S PROMISE INC: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $19,000 · Health+8 more: $26,000 · HealthCOMPLETE PLAYGROUND INC: $500,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE NEW GROUP INC: $177,250 · Arts & CultureTHE BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $81,882 · Human ServicesTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $41,000 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human Services+4 more: $16,500 · Human Services
Other$25,253,634Education$686,250Public Safety & Disaster$530,600Health$520,000Recreation & Sports$504,500Arts & Culture$191,250Human Services$171,882

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GLADNEY FUND: $3,963,552 over 8y, 45% of budgetALVAREZ & MARSAL FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetCOMPLETE PLAYGROUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $370,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $177,250 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $101,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $81,882 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA SALLE SCHOOL: $72,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWesthab Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE: $28,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGARRET'S PROMISE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetSPIRITS PROMISE EQUINE RESCUE CORP: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BETHANIA FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEDFORD FREE LIBRARY: $5,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAABR Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHER JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ALVAREZ & MARSAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPLETE PLAYGROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds COPD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LA SALLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE KELLY GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTHONY RIZZO FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds Westhab Inc ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds GARRET'S PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPIRITS PROMISE EQUINE RESCUE CORP ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY20.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Alvarez Charitable Foundation Inc · The Santomero Family Foundation Inc Co Denise C R Santomero · Hathaway Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    28report 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, 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 Marsal Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Marsal Family 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 160 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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