Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION
MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,259 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INC ($62,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $497k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $212k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Marina Orth Foundation does
Mission
The Marina Orth Foundation, a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, strives to improve the education of children and youth from disadvantaged socioeconomic areas in medellin, colombia. (continued on schedule o)our mission is to develop stem skills with a focus on technology and robotics, bilingualism, social/emotional learning, and leadership to empower our students. We are convinced that their success not only depends on classroom learning but also self-confidence, teamwork, and perseverance. A knowledge of technology and english combined with strong interpersonal skills will enable them to compete in the 21st century and to help achieve their dreams and goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
At the Marina Orth Foundation, a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit public charity, we are convinced that an education is a key engine of change and closes the gaps in social inequality through our curriculum and clubs. For 20 years we have served a total 132,000 students in 80 schools in medellin and 8 other municipalities. We break barriers and build bridges to a bright future by providing our students the opportunity to learn english, robotics, technology, explore their vocations, and access university scholarships. Beyond acquiring new skills and knowledge our students also develop essential skills, resilience, creativity, innovation, and critical thinking. Our success means stressing teamwork and project based learning to address community needs. (con't on schedule o)their knowledge of technology and english combined with strong interpersonal skills enables them to achieve their dreams and goals. In 2025, with thanks to our private/public partners, some of our achievements include:robotics: our robotics clubs compete against the best students from public and private schools in medellin and throughout colombia. At the international youth robot competition in south korea we won a…
$357,320 spentof which $332,782 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $357,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+19%).
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.
92% of MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 held at 6 funders, grant income rose $9k → $36k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION’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
MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 67% · 2019 69% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 30% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION?
- MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,259 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INC ($62,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $212,259 in grants to MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION?
- THE JOSEPH AND CAROLYN DEMARCO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $62,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARINA ORTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing