California · Nonprofit
MARIN VENTURES
MARIN VENTURES (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,537 to it, the largest being LORNE AND ILONA PARKER FOUNDATION ($128,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Marin Ventures does
Mission
The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult Development Center that serves adults with developmental disabilities. Open 52 weeks a year, 5 days a week except certain holidays, it provides services through four program components. Marin Ventures began in June 1990 serving 24 clients and now serves 104 service recipients. Marin Ventures publishes a semi-annual newsletter.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult Learning Center (ALC);Accessing Community Experience(ACE) and Wise Elders (WE): The ALC serves consumers at its site at 350 Merrydale Road, San Rafael, CA. Occupational Therapy (OT) is provided to many consumers and the OT program features a Sensorium, which uses Snoezelen equipment to facilitate sensory integration. The ALC also has an award-winning art studio and ongoing classes in independent living skills. The ALC was awarded three Cal-Trans vans in a prior year to enhance community access for its consumers.The ACE program is entirely community based. The consumers in the ACE program start at headquarters in the morning but spend the day in the community working, recreating, and attending classes. ACE consumers volunteer once a week at the local Veterans Administration hospital.The WE program is designed for participants experiencing the effect of aging and need additional support while continuing to participate in same activities of other programs.
$1,324,540 spent50% of program spendingSpecialized Day Program (SDP): The SDP was created at the request of the funding agency to serve adults with incidental medical needs. This program began in January 2006. The program is led by a Certified Nursing Assistant who created and oversees the health plan of the consumers, while monitoring their physical well being.
$1,324,540 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,649,080.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $4.7M (+154%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MARIN VENTURES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $14k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARIN VENTURES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MARIN VENTURES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 93% · 2020 54% · 2021 97% · 2022 89% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of MARIN VENTURES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MARIN VENTURES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARIN VENTURES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIN VENTURES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARIN VENTURES?
- MARIN VENTURES (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,537 to it, the largest being LORNE AND ILONA PARKER FOUNDATION ($128,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARIN VENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $251,537 in grants to MARIN VENTURES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARIN VENTURES?
- LORNE AND ILONA PARKER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $128,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARIN VENTURES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing