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The Marspf Foundation at a glance

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The Marspf Foundation

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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$7kEducation$5kPhilanthropy$2kHousing & Shelter$1kCivil Rights$1kArts & Culture$750Crime & Legal$500Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TWINSBURG SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$4,800
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$1,000
SHOES THAT FIT$1,000
CAP OC FOOD BANK$400
02The need
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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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHOES THAT FIT: $1k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $500 → 14%THE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $4k → 13%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.
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 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
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.

Human Services
2
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

See schedule o.legal aid's mission is to secure justice, equity and access to opportunity for and with people who have low incomes through passionate legal representation and advocacy for systematic change.

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3
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
6
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
7
East Bay Community Law Center

East bay community law center's mission is to promote justice and build a more healthy, secure, productive and hopeful community by providing: 1) legal services and policy advocacy that responds to the needs of low-income communities,…

Crime & Legal
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
10
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
11
Columbus House Inc

Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…

Housing & Shelter
12
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Twinsburg Schools Foundation 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER IN…SHOES THAT FIT: $1,500 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FITTwinsburg Schools Foundation Inc: $4,800 · EducationTwinsburg Schools Foundation …PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $1,750 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOUSE INCSUMMIT CO BATTERED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $1,000 · OtherSUMMIT CO BATTERED WOM…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTN…CAP OC FOOD BANK: $400 · OtherCAP OC FOOD BANKUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $1,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $1,000 · Civil RightsCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $750 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC LAW CENTER: $500 · Crime & LegalMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $250 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$5,500Education$4,800Other$3,650Philanthropy$1,750Civil Rights$1,000Arts & Culture$750Crime & Legal$500Housing & Shelter$250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTwinsburg Schools Foundation Inc: $4,800 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC LAW CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $250 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.

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 Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Marspf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marspf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 12 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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