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Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Foundation at a glance

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Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$531k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
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$1.7MArts & Culture$512kEducation$465kReligion$240kInternational$200kEnvironment$100kFood & Nutrition$38kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$33,334
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS$125,000
ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA$50,000
ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$33,334
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$10,000
PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE$10,000
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
FOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $100k → 16%UCLA Foundation: $50k → 14%Santa Barbara Museum of Art: $100k → 14%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $10k → 17%North Texas Food Bank: $30k → 5%Amarillo Museum of Art: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $33k → 10%TEXAS HEALTH RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%MD Anderson: $125k → 16%The UNM Foundation: $10k → 14%American Enterprise Institute: $10k → 14%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $50k → 16%UCLA Foundation: $50k → 14%New York City Ballet: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $33k → 10%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 14%MD Anderson: $50k → 16%New York City Ballet: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $15k → 10%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 14%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $10k → 17%University of Texas at Austin: $10k → 10%University of Texas SW Medical Fnd: $250k → 14%NEW YORK CITY BALLET: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $10k → 10%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 14%The University of Texas at Austin: $10k → 10%University of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation: $200k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $33k → 10%University of Texas SW Medical Fnd: $100k → 14%EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS: $125k → 14%Council on Foreign Relations: $50k → 17%Episcopal School of Dallas: $60k → 14%Museum of Modern Art: $10k → 17%Council On Foreign Relations: $50k → 17%Episcopal School of Dallas: $60k → 14%Museum of Modern Art: $10k → 17%Dallas Symphony Orchestra: $10k → 14%Council On Foreign Relations: $50k → 17%DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 14%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10k → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA: $50k → 14%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA: $50k → 14%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA: $35k → 14%Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church: $35k → 14%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA: $35k → 14%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA: $35k → 14%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 17 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+138%

Still filing today

65%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +34%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +21%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Texas SW Medical Fnd
    one grant, 2021 · $352k
  • UO
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $202k
  • TH
    Texas Health Resources Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +144%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Pnm Tnmp Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $750,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERUniversity of Texas SW Medical Fnd: $351,500 · OtherUniversity of Texas SW Medical FndTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $245,000 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPA: $205,000 · OtherST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation: $201,500 · OtherUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical FoundationMD Anderson: $175,000 · OtherMD AndersonUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $145,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINSanta Barbara Museum of Art: $100,000 · OtherAmarillo Museum of Art: $100,000 · Other+7 more: $144,500 · Other+7 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 · HealthTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 · HealthNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $200,000 · InternationalUCLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 · Social Science
Other$2,417,500Health$250,000Arts & Culture$225,000International$200,000Education$200,000Social Science$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $245,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Health Resources Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPNM TNMP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Health Resources Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds PNM TNMP FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Tom and Charlene Marsh Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tom and Charlene Marsh 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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