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Yvonne & Michael Marsh Family Foundation at a glance

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Yvonne & Michael 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.

$287k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$254kHuman Services$158kRecreation & Sports$36kAnimals$24kPhilanthropy$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEN AMERICAN CENTER$100,000
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL$100,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$30,000
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL$17,450
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$15,000
BUTLER UNIVERSITY$10,000
FREEDOM FOR ALL$5,000
FREEDOM FOR ALL$2,500
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,545
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$1,500
POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL$1,057
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$1,000
MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING$1,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$550
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$275
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 (FY17–23, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DZI FOUNDATION: $33k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $26k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $26k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%DZI FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%ANGEL BASKETS: $500 → 7%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

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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 22 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
15

Total granted

$3.1M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+27%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $865k · revenue +110%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $458k · revenue +122%
  • TF
    THE FAY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $375k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • OC
    ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • AB
    ABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • TA
    TELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +27%
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.

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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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
9
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
10
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
11
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Angel Baskets 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

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 44 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $864,827 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INCThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $229,600 · Arts & CultureThe National Film Preserve Ltd+5 more: $31,535 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $457,915 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $375,350 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOOL INCUniversity of Chicago: $116,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY …+5 more: $19,000 · EducationRISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN TEXAS: $408,805 · OtherRISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN TEXASNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $187,500 · OtherNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINETELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,692 · OtherTELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION…WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $60,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINECORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $55,000 · OtherCORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE+14 more: $69,245 · Other+14 moreDZI FOUNDATION: $156,785 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsWildlife Conservation Society: $13,725 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $7,117 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $3,000 · Animals+1 more: $250 · AnimalsTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFREEDOM FOR ALL INC: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,125,962Education$1,068,265Other$906,242Human Services$157,285Recreation & Sports$30,000Animals$24,092Philanthropy$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $864,827 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $457,915 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $375,350 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $229,600 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetDZI FOUNDATION: $156,785 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $125,692 over 4y, 82% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $116,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $13,725 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetABACO-WINDING BAY RELIEF FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetButler University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM FOR ALL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $7,117 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM: $6,003 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,020 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,525 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MILFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION A NJ NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,022 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIDAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $990 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Baskets Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $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.

Telluride FoundationThe Thomas Phillips a…Renaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Telluride FoundationCO17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Telluride Foundation · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Yvonne & Michael Marsh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yvonne & Michael Marsh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Yvonne & Michael Marsh Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Yvonne & Michael 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 44 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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