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THE MARSH FOUNDATION

THE MARSH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,504 to it, the largest being THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.8M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$74M
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Marsh Foundation does

Mission

The Marsh Foundation is a children's home and school for children experiencing adjustment problems and provides behavioral treatment and family and treatment foster care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Schooling for children in need of foster care and/or group home residential care. Its purpose is to assist families and children who are experiencing mild to moderate adjustment problems.

    $6,866,370 spent$4,343,999 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,866,370.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.7M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($56M)2018 Revenue 119 ($8.0M) Expenses 104 ($5.6M) Net assets 103 ($57M)2019 Revenue 87 ($5.8M) Expenses 104 ($5.6M) Net assets 105 ($58M)2020 Revenue 91 ($6.1M) Expenses 105 ($5.6M) Net assets 107 ($60M)2021 Revenue 238 ($16M) Expenses 113 ($6.1M) Net assets 125 ($69M)2022 Revenue 94 ($6.3M) Expenses 124 ($6.7M) Net assets 112 ($62M)2023 Revenue 73 ($4.9M) Expenses 126 ($6.8M) Net assets 116 ($65M)2024 Revenue 95 ($6.3M) Expenses 128 ($6.9M) Net assets 125 ($69M)2025 Revenue 117 ($7.8M) Expenses 138 ($7.4M) Net assets 133 ($74M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (138)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $60M to $70M (+16%).

$56M
$58M
$59M
$60M
$70M
$63M
$65M
$70M
$74M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 23% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of THE MARSH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
’17
$2.4M
’18
$244k
’19
$437k
’20
$9.9M
’21
−$357k
’22
−$1.9M
’23
−$524k
’24
$418k
’25
6.6
months of
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.

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Listed444444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$10k
$10k
funders
2
1
1

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 MARSH 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

THE MARSH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

78% 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 MARSH FOUNDATION.

34%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

66% of THE MARSH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
AZ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE MARSH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE MARSH 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MARSH FOUNDATION: 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 THE MARSH FOUNDATION?
THE MARSH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,504 to it, the largest being THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MARSH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $44,504 in grants to THE MARSH FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE MARSH FOUNDATION?
THE VAN WERT COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MARSH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 4 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