How much did THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

artisticcrisisdetroit studentscultural

2019

adultartisticfuturesraising awarenessbuildyoungcultural

2020

safeculturalgun violence

2021

sports

2022

kidsbuildsolutionsskills

2023

further donee'sdonee's exemptgrowsaveviolenceskillsempower

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k43 grants · $123k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$50k–250k1 grant · $95k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$256k

Total assets

Largest grants

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$95,000
TARGET FOUNDATION$25,000
LIGHTHOUSE$20,000
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION$15,000
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION$10,000
WOLVERINE HUMAN SERVICES$10,000
WHY NOT CARE MORE$10,000
VISTA MARIA$8,000
SPHINX ORGANIZATION$7,500
GIFFORDS$5,000
DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM$5,000
CARE OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$5,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
ILITCH CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN$5,000
COMMON GROUND$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 63 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+4%

Still filing today

46%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

HF
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +69%
GC
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +60%
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +34%

Funded once

TG
THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE
one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -41%
DR
DETROIT RESCUE MISSION
one grant, 2020 · $100k
CC
CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Local Circles

Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…

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Teensharp

Teensharp is building a diverse pipeline of leaders, one top college admission at a time. we do so by preparing hundreds of black, latino, and low-income students to attend, thrive at, and graduate (with little or no debt) from america's…

Youth Development

About Face Detroit

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The Detroit Institute of Arts

The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.

Arts & Culture

The Detroit Creativity Project

To empower and inspire metro detroit-area young people through improvisation.

Unclassified

The Michigan Glass Project

Public Benefit

The Young Women's Project

The young womens project (ywp)engages under-resourced youth of color, ages 14-21, with a focus onteen women and youth in care. during the year ended september 30, 2020, ywp hired and trained 262 young people from 25 dc public and charter…

Education

Detroit Heals Detroit Inc

Detroit Heals Detroit exists to foster healing justice for Detroit youth in which they are able to transform their pain into power. With a goal to combat trauma, we use healing centered engagement to share our greatest vulnerabilities with…

Youth Development

Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday

Dlive is a health-centered violence intervention and prevention organization that works to advance the health outcomes and well-being of young adults who have sustained injury from community violence.

Health

Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship

Detroit food academy partners with local high schools, educators, and food entrepreneurs to facilitate a year-round program. as students develop food-based solutions in their communities, they grow as holistic leaders who are healthy,…

Education

Youth Communication Ny Center Inc

Youth communication elevates teen voices to create real change. through the power of true stories, written by youth who have been systemically marginalized, we create more supportive and successful learning communities. youth…

Arts & Culture

Friends of the Children - Detroit

Friends of the children - detroit is a michigan based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Arts and the most unlike its peers is Vista Maria. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/63

the rest of the field

12%

13,115/107,622

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.

05the grantee network

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/59

Grantees still filing

43/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,255,419Health$424,813Human Services$238,000Food & Nutrition$152,500Arts & Culture$90,500Community Improvement$82,500Public Safety & Disaster$73,290

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.

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.

Community Foundation for SoutheastMI34.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast · Ford Motor Company Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Fred a & Barbara M Erb Family · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Culturesource · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley

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 organisation THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY HAPPENS HERE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +61% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814367257 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY HAPPENS HERE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Marshall Mathers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marshall Mathers Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Marshall Mathers Foundation?

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THE MARSHALL MATHERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Marshall Mathers Foundation?

More from the funding graph