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The Marshall Family Foundation Inc

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.

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.2MArts & Culture$541kEducation$235kAnimals$190kYouth Development$124kPhilanthropy$115kFood & Nutrition$80kHuman Services$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BHUTAN FOUNDATION$120,000
WNET$40,000
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (UNIS)$25,000
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL$25,000
NOLS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION$15,000
S4E GLOBAL$15,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$15,000
INNERSCIENCE RESEARCH FUND$15,000
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL$15,000
VITAL VOICES$10,000
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER$10,000
NY RESTORATION PROJECT$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
RI
CA
KS
SC
DC
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 46 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
16

Total granted

$3.3M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

59%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TB
    The Bhutan Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $501k · revenue +35%
  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +115%
  • TF
    Tibet Fund Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SC
    STERLING COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue ×11
  • NA
    Native American Heritage Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +53%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
5
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Art in a Box Inc. 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

42 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. 42 of the 64 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Bhutan Foundation: $501,000 · OtherThe Bhutan FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNOLS: $140,000 · OtherNOLSIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (UNIS): $120,000 · OtherUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (UNIS)LEE BHUTAN FOUNDATION: $102,000 · OtherTHIRTEEN: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · Other+29 more: $706,000 · Other+29 moreWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $145,000 · InternationalWATER MISSION…Tibet Fund Inc: $105,000 · InternationalTibet Fund In…VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 · InternationalVITAL VOICES …THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $40,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HU…+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalWNET: $185,000 · Arts & CultureWNETFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINC…THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUB…+4 more: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER: $80,000 · EducationFRIENDS W…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationHOFSTRA U…MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationMARYMOUNT…LITERACY INC: $25,000 · EducationLITERACY …Teachers College Columbia University: $17,000 · EducationTeachers …The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $15,000 · EducationThe New Y…STERLING COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · AnimalsS4E GLOBAL INC: $60,000 · AnimalsROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyChristodora Inc: $34,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $80,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,014,000International$395,000Arts & Culture$362,500Education$279,500Animals$160,000Philanthropy$129,000Food & Nutrition$80,000

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 Bhutan Foundation: $501,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWNET: $185,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $105,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER: $80,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetS4E GLOBAL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetMARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $57,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE TO RESEARCH: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAscend Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChristodora Inc: $34,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetON BEING PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART IN A BOX INC: $7,500 over 2y, 49% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GUILD FOR COMMUNITY ARTS EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY ON A HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds S4E GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVE TO RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ascend Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds Christodora Inc ↗
  • Who funds ON BEING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION 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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Bessemer Giving F…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…American Express Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…
The New York Community TrustNY16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%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
    2get no government money at all
    13report 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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    Find your warmest path to The Marshall Family Foundation Inc 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 64 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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