Washington · Nonprofit
Maris Place
Maris Place (Washington) receives grants from 222 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,121,415 to it, the largest being THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION ($2,550,000). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 222
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $358k
What Maris Place does
Mission
Maris Place for the Arts MPFA mission is to foster creativity and self-confidence in low- income and BIPOC children and teens through arts and culture programs that improve their health educational success and ability to pursue a positive future. Aligning with its values MPFA works to ensure every participant has an understanding of the essential place they and their family have in the community. MPFA is committed to creating a space for arts culture leadership development and civic engagement opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts and cultural programs are designed to empower children and youth to realize their potential improve self-confidence and inspire them to pursue their dreams. Programming currently includes art and culture classes such as drawing painting theater dance previous classes include ballet folklorico Hawaiian and Indian music including drums singing violin and piano summer outdoor programs. This fosters pride in cultural diversity and the presentations at community festivals benefit the broader community by sharing diverse cultures and arts of a more inclusive Snohomish County. Programs are delivered in different languages many in Spanish and amplify the ethnic culture and traditions within the community which bridges access to opportunities to learn and grow. All programs are facilitated by an inclusivity that cultivates community among a diversity of individuals who identify with or experience realities of marginalization as BIPOC immigrant refugee LGBTQIA+ and or persons living with disabilities. In 2023 MPFA served 1,013 children and youth from ages 3 through young adult of which 902 improved self-efficacy 750 improved school grades and more than 500 improved school attendance…
$356,772 spentof which $371,104 as grants$14,332 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $356,772.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $190k to $435k (+129%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% · 2024 34% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Maris Place’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Mary Toews
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 75 funders, grant income rose $274k → $1.3M.
7 of 222 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Maris Place’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 222 funders by total. 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
Maris Place has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 25% · 2019 35% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 37% — 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
40% of Maris Place's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
90% of Maris Place's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Maris Place is better cushioned than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Maris Place receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Maris Place
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maris Place: 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 Maris Place?
- Maris Place (Washington) receives grants from 222 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,121,415 to it, the largest being THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION ($2,550,000). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maris Place have?
- IRS filings report 222 organizations giving $12,121,415 in grants to Maris Place, 117 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maris Place?
- THE NORCLIFFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maris Place find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 222 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