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The Marsh Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$408k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$715kHousing & Shelter$328kReligion$294kHealth$259kHuman Services$225kPhilanthropy$190kEnvironment$72kScience & Tech$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $258k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS - HOUSING IMPACT FUND$100,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$58,000
CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY$27,500
THE CROSSNORE SCHOOL$25,000
ROOF ABOVE INC$20,000
DISCOVERY PLACE$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$10,000
CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL$10,000
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER$5,000
ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK$5,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$4,000
FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA$4,000
SECOND HELPINGS BEAUFORT COUNTY$3,500
PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION$2,000
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 (FY17–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS: $7k → 12%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $7k → 12%FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS: $7k → 12%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $1k → 12%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $1k → 12%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC DBA TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $1k → 12%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $1k → 12%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC DBA TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $1k → 12%FAMILY CENTER FOR DEAFNESS: $1k → 12%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC DBA TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC DBA TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC DBA TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER: $5k → 10%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC DBA TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $28k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER: $5k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER: $5k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER: $5k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE DBA YMCA OF GREATER: $5k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5k → 10%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

NY
IN
CA
VA
TN
NC
SC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 36 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
15

Total granted

$1.8M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+10%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $260k · revenue +5%
  • HF
    HopeWay Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +233%
  • Crisis Assistance Ministry
    6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TH
    Teen Health Connection Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • WK
    WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • CF
    Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
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
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
3
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.

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4
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…

Philanthropy
5
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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6
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.

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7
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
8
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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9
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
10
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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11
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
12
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is Blue Ridge Guide Association. 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

38 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. 38 of the 58 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $180,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USAFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS - HOUSING IMPACT FUND: $100,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS - HOUSING IMP…Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientURBAN MINISTRY CENTER: $80,000 · OtherURBAN MINISTRY CENTERTHE CROSSNORE SCHOOL: $75,000 · OtherTHE CROSSNORE SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $52,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HIL…UNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $37,500 · OtherSt Francis Center Inc: $32,000 · Other+23 more: $213,900 · Other+23 moreCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $260,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SC…Davidson College: $124,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LI…+2 more: $16,500 · EducationROOF ABOVE INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INCDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY PLAC…+2 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureHopeWay Foundation: $150,000 · HealthHopeWay Fo…Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $40,000 · HealthDilworth C…Teen Health Connection Inc: $30,000 · HealthTeen Healt…+2 more: $3,500 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $190,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATIO…Crisis Assistance Ministry: $127,500 · Human ServicesCrisis As…FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CE…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…+3 more: $9,500 · Human ServicesTreesCharlotte: $25,000 · EnvironmentPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $10,500 · EnvironmentSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $8,000 · EnvironmentDataw Island Conservancy Inc: $4,500 · EnvironmentBlue Ridge Guide Association: $2,500 · Environment
Other$870,900Education$500,500Arts & Culture$297,500Health$223,500Philanthropy$190,000Human Services$189,000Environment$67,500

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 budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $260,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $127,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDavidson College: $124,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSt Francis Center Inc: $32,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTeen Health Connection Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $27,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS INC: $27,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTreesCharlotte: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF UNION COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDataw Island Conservancy Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTrustBridge Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Guide Association: $2,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFordham University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTRYWAY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Enrichment Program Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice by the Sea Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOW COUNTRY INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency ↗
  • Who funds St Francis Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Teen Health Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTER ON DEAFNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds TreesCharlotte ↗
  • Who funds Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
  • Who funds THE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF UNION COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC27.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Nucor Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Philip L Van Every Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 58 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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