How much does The Marson Foundation give?

The Marson Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $6,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Marson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Health (19%), Housing & Shelter (14%).

Who are The Marson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westside Cares Inc ($30k), Children's Advocacy Center for the Pikes Peak Region Inc ($29k), CASA of the Pikes Peak Region ($28k).

Does The Marson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Marson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Marson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Springs Health Foundation, Pikes Peak Community Foundation, El Pomar Foundation.

Where is The Marson Foundation based?

The Marson Foundation is based in CO.

The Marson Foundation

The Marson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Marson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$162kHealth$102kHousing & Shelter$77kCrime & Legal$56kEducation$34kCivil Rights$28kFood & Nutrition$23kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,200

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Independent Gift Fund	$6,200

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$475k · 39 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$475k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+22%

Still filing today

74%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

WC
WESTSIDE CARES INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
CA
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR THE PIKES PEAK REGION INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +34%
CO
CASA of the Pikes Peak Region
7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +10%

Funded once

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ASCENDING TO HEALTH RESPITE CARE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +66%
FO
Friends of the Children - Colorado
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
FP
Family Promise of Colorado Springs
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services

Homeward Pikes Peak

Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.

Housing & Shelter

Colorado Mental Wellness Network

To empower Coloradans affected by mental health conditions and providing them with skills and tools necessary to achieve their personal wellness goal.

Health

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services

Summitstone Health Partners

SummitStone provides comprehensive behavioral health services across all care levels: 24/7 crisis services, inpatient and outpatient treatment, housing, residential care, and peer support. We partner with law enforcement, schools, and…

Health

Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

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Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services

Sunshine Home Share Colorado

Sunshine home share colorado ensures quality of life for older adults and strengthens communities through a safe home-sharing model, supportive economic empowerment, and connections to resources and services.

Housing & Shelter

La Plata Youth Services

La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.

Crime & Legal

Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health

Connections for Independent Living

To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Springs Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble. 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

43 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. 43 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

34/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$245,986Human Services$129,510Crime & Legal$57,000Health$39,200Civil Rights$28,000Housing & Shelter$27,000Food & Nutrition$22,500

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

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.

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.

Colorado Springs Health FoundationCO76.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Springs Health Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak United Way · The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Luther T McCauley Charitable Trust Xxxxx3001 · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Hester E & Edwin W Giddings Foundation · Carl W & Carrie Mae Joslyn Charitable Trust

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home