How much does Thomas Marshall Foundation give?

Thomas Marshall Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $415,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Thomas Marshall Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Arts & Culture (20%), Education (18%).

Who are Thomas Marshall Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ($600k), National Flag Foundation ($445k), Sewickley Academy ($100k).

Does Thomas Marshall Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Thomas Marshall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas Marshall Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr, Child Health Association of Sewickley Inc.

Where is Thomas Marshall Foundation based?

Thomas Marshall Foundation is based in PA.

Thomas Marshall Foundation

Thomas Marshall Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Thomas Marshall 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.

$415k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$987kArts & Culture$699kEducation$625kHuman Services$289kPhilanthropy$158kEnvironment$118kReligion$80kHousing & Shelter$74kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $78k
$10k–50k15 grants · $237k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOUNDLESS	$100,000
Individual grant recipient	$32,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$30,000
THE LINDSAY THEATER & CULTURAL CENTER	$20,000
SWEETWATER CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$20,000
NATIONAL FLAG FOUNDATION	$20,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY	$20,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA	$15,000
CRISIS CENTER NORTH	$10,000
WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH	$10,000
HEARTH	$10,000
FERN HALLOW NATURE CENTER	$10,000
ANGEL'S PLACE	$10,000
CANCER BRIDGES	$10,000
SEWICKLEY VALLEY YMCA	$10,000

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 (FY17–25, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.9M · 45 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+13%

Still filing today

71%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

SA
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +41%
TN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +243%
AP
Angels Place Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +110%

Funded once

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +27%
UI
URBAN IMPACT
one grant, 2019 · $10k
SV
Sewickley Valley Community Fund
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +5%

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.

Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services

Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education

Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health

Center for Victims

Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…

Human Services

Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals

Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment

Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health

World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.

International

University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Kids Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is JUST1MIKE. 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

42 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. 42 of the 59 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)

42/42

Grantees still filing

33/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,184,450Health$683,400Arts & Culture$619,750Education$532,000Human Services$247,000Philanthropy$155,000Environment$70,000

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA48.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Child Health Association of Sewickley Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Peirce Family Foundation Inc · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Grable Foundation · Wp Snyder III Charitable Fund · Massey 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 Thomas Marshall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Marshall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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