· Private foundation
The Marshall Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00227
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $213k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOXFIELD RACES LLC FOUNDERS CIRCLE | $15,000 |
| VERMONT FORESTRY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $8,000 |
| VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER | $8,000 |
| SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY | $5,000 |
| SERVICE DOGS OF VA | $5,000 |
| LONESOME DOVE EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CAJUN NAVY RELIEF | $5,000 |
| BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OPERATION HELO | $5,000 |
| HIVES FOR HEROS | $5,000 |
| RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| ONE LOVE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
90 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BGBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +14%
- GRGARTH ROAD PRESERVATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +769%
- SFSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- VTVERMONT TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDone grant, 2022 · $21k
- BGBOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $2k
- DFDIABETES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The wvlt protects "special places" in wv, which include lands that give wv its distinctive character and exhibit significant conservation values. those values span a range of public benefits, including water quality protection,…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
THE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS ACTIVELY RESCUES CATS AND DOGS, PROVIDES QUALITY CARE AND OFFERS SANCTUARY UNTIL LOVING HOMES CAN BE FOUND. ARF's work with animals, within our community and throughout the organization is guided by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lundale Farm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARTH ROAD PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EQUINE LAND CONSERVATION RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HIVES FOR HEROES ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORTHRIGHT LEGAL ↗
- Who funds IXTATAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds MORVEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Perry Foundation Inc · The Charles Fund Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · Caplin Foundation · The Watterson Foundation · The Genan Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Westwind Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Marshall Fund 7522-Xxxxxx00227 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.