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THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC

THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,795,759 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,106,602). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$7.8M
Revenue FY2025
161
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
82/161 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.5M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 52 ($4.4M) Expenses 120 ($5.4M) Net assets 94 ($12M)2019 Revenue 57 ($4.7M) Expenses 122 ($5.5M) Net assets 89 ($12M)2020 Revenue 47 ($3.9M) Expenses 138 ($6.2M) Net assets 70 ($9.1M)2021 Revenue 59 ($4.9M) Expenses 110 ($4.9M) Net assets 83 ($11M)2022 Revenue 118 ($9.8M) Expenses 105 ($4.7M) Net assets 116 ($15M)2023 Revenue 98 ($8.2M) Expenses 151 ($6.8M) Net assets 129 ($17M)2024 Revenue 66 ($5.5M) Expenses 149 ($6.6M) Net assets 125 ($16M)2025 Revenue 94 ($7.8M) Expenses 169 ($7.6M) Net assets 129 ($17M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (169)Net assets (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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.9M
17
$1.0M
18
$761k
19
$2.3M
20
$7k
21
$5.1M
22
$1.4M
23
$1.2M
24
$215k
25
4.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.2M.

27 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)68% 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 THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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

THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

74% 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 THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC.

21%
largest funder
52%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 70% · 2019 62% · 2020 22% · 2021 29% · 2022 46% · 2023 45%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.

How long its funders stay

25% of THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.7M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from New York funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 161 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 11%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

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Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC?
THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,795,759 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,106,602). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $14,795,759 in grants to THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,106,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 161funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing