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The Marvin and Helene Gralnick Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Marvin and Helene Gralnick Foundation Inc

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.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$624kHuman Services$380kYouth Development$317kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kEnvironment$16kRecreation & Sports$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $148k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISION CASHIERS INC$147,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PLATEAU INC$15,000
TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
FISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY$893
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SW FLORIDA$200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $528k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.

area typical 8%VISION CASHIERS INC: $228k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $148k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $123k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $23k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $5k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $3k → 18%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$1.6M
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+71%

Still filing today

57%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VC
    VISION CASHIERS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $528k · revenue +257% · 41% of their budget
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $332k · revenue +20%
  • FL
    FISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VILLAGE GREEN
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CA
    CASHIERS AREA LEGACY FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TV
    The Village Green of Cashiers Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +59%
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
Vance Charter School Foundation Inc

Support of Vance Charter School, a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
2
Mountain Village Charter School

Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.

Education
3
Little Swift Creek Volunteer Fire Department

Operation of volunteer fire department in craven county, north carolina

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4
Vance Charter School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
5
Cape Fear Montessori Village Inc

Cape Fear Montessori Village operates the Island Montessori Charter School, a K-8 public charter elementary school committed to enabling children to learn and grow at their own pace by offering a developmentally appropriate and challenging…

Education
6
Cashiers Valley Preschoolinc

Preschool education and daycare, ages one to four

Education
7
Community Public Charter School

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
8
Triangle Volunteer Fire Department

To provide First Responder and Fire Department Services for Pamlico County NC

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire and rescue services in the lake lure and bills creek area of rutherford county nc

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Rimer Volunteer Fire Department

The organization's primary mission is fighting fires in the rimer fire district of cabarrus county, north carolina.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Guilford Charter School Corporation

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
12
TreesCharlotte

Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village Green of Cashiers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODVIBE SCHOOL: $619,200 · OtherGOODVIBE SCHOOL+6 more: $24,561 · OtherVISION CASHIERS INC: $527,500 · Human ServicesVISION CASHIERS INCBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $332,000 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of Th…+3 more: $4,500 · EducationFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,893 · Food & NutritionGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $30,514 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $250 · Public Safety & DisasterCASHIERS AREA LEGACY FUND INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$643,761Human Services$527,500Education$336,500Food & Nutrition$50,893Public Safety & Disaster$30,764Community Improvement$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOODVIBE SCHOOL: $619,200 over 4y, 94% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $527,500 over 6y, 41% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $332,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,893 over 2y, 12% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $30,514 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,111 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Charter School Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULLOWHEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE APPLIED RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION: $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.

A Friends Foundation …Florence Mauboules Ch…The Community Foundat…Sneed Family Foundati…Leadership Legacy Lif…Gulf Coast Community …Tickle Family Foundat…Litowitz Foundation I…The Double Eagle Foun…Highlands Cashiers He…Brighton Foundation T…The Billi Marcus Foun…
A Friends Foundation TrustNJ17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: A Friends Foundation Trust · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Sneed Family Foundation · Leadership Legacy Life Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Tickle Family Foundation · Litowitz Foundation Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Marvin and Helene Gralnick 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 17 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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