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The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation at a glance

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The Nancy Lurie Marks Family 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.

$9.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2.4M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$14MEducation$6.6MCivil Rights$847kHuman Services$325kArts & Culture$140kFood & Nutrition$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kScience & Tech$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $8.5M
$40,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$120M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,437,500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$2,437,500
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,741,666
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$709,500
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$635,097
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY$274,525
THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION$272,300
MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN$160,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSITUTE$132,291
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$125,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$99,870
YALE UNIVERSITY$75,000
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FR BIOLOGISCHE INTELLIGENZ$75,000
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$75,000
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, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YCS FOUNDATION: $250 → 7%NORTHEAST ACCESSIBLE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $5k → 7%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $50k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $6k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 35 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
30

Total granted

$19M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+21%

Still filing today

66%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +87%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +64%
  • MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • HM
    HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • LF
    LURIE FAMILY AUTISM CENTER CLINICAL PROGRAM FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • SB
    STEMINA BIOMARKER DISCOVERY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…

Health
4
Associated Physicians of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At Bidmc Inc

The mission of associated physicians of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. d/b/a longwood specialty physicians (lsp) is to provide world class clinical care and medical instruction and to…

Health
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
9
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

The mission of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. is to provide extraordinary healthcare services, where the patient comes first, supported by world-class education, research and training.

Health
10
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Medical Center Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Project Literacy Incorporated. 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

51 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. 51 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $7,444,998 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLLURIE FAMILY AUTISM CENTER CLINICAL PROGRAM FUND: $1,000,000 · OtherLURIE FAMILY AUTISM CENTER CLINICAL PROGRAM F…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $459,483 · Other+43 more: $2,273,706 · Other+43 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,437,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADE…MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $2,339,918 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARYMaineHealth: $2,147,487 · HealthMaineHealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,649,212 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENT…NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $552,800 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC+13 more: $602,791 · Health+13 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,797,635 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,437,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $500,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of T…+4 more: $167,500 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,004,019 · Civil RightsBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $180 · Arts & CultureBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $5,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST ACCESSIBLE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesHebrew Senior Life Inc: $45,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $102 · Philanthropy
Other$12,678,187Health$9,729,708Education$7,902,635Civil Rights$1,004,019Arts & Culture$150,180Human Services$126,250Philanthropy$45,102

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,797,635 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,437,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,437,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaineHealth: $2,147,487 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,649,212 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,004,019 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $552,800 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $459,483 over 6y, 11% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $225,999 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRAXA Research Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $103,692 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget3LPlace Inc: $77,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARC MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,150 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetADVOCATES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $12,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNDERSTANDING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ACCESSIBLE GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERWIN MEMORIAL FREE CLINIC FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,420 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYCS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $201 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PROJECT LITERACY INCORPORATED: $102 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI ROCHESTER NY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $50 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.

  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
  • Who funds MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds 3LPlace Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Doug Flutie Jr Fo…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncRuderman Family Found…GivenGain Foundation …Rockland Trust Charit…Analog Devices Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Ruderman Family Foundation · GivenGain Foundation USA · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Arc Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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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How do I get to The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation 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 84 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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