Markham Family Foundation
Wilmington, DE · EIN 85-2938038. Reported 121 grants totalling $1,789,925 to 79 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Markham Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Markham Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 3 grants totalling $54,000 to them. That is 3% of the $1,651,925 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc | grantmaking organization | Indiana | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Realities for Children Charities | community foundation | Colorado | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | grantmaking organization | Florida | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $55,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $207,000 | 7 | 4 | 2025 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | Denver, CO | $165,000 | 5 | 3 | 2025 |
| Open Door Ministries | Denver, CO | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Servants of Christ International Inc | Milliken, CO | $114,925 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Crosspurpose | Denver, CO | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Denver Rescue Mission | Denver, CO | $78,000 | 5 | 3 | 2025 |
| Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc | Englewood, CO | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc | South Bend, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel Community | Aurora, CO | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Denver Inc | Denver, CO | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Adoptive Families Coalition | Hyde Park, UT | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salvation Army | Denver, CO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Stepping Stone Communities Inc | Littleton, CO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trash Into Treasure | Westminster, CO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Colorado Wild Sports Group Inc | Aurora, CO | $35,000 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hoffman Family Foundation | Golden, CO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Great Commission Foundation of Campus Crusade | Orlando, FL | $35,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Navigators | Colorado Springs, CO | $35,000 | 3 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leadership Institute | Arlington, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | Staten Island, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews | Washington, IL | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Adaptive Adventures | Westminster, CO | $24,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Brown International Academy | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Food for Thought Denver | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jackson Zinn Memorial Fund | Westminster, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lutheran Social Service of Colorado | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army - Intermountain Divisional Headquar | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shared Hope International | Vancouver, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inheritance of Hope Inc | Atlanta, GA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society Dba W | Englewood, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grace Church of Arvada | Arvada, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Joni and Friends | Agoura Hills, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lightbridge International | Arvada, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | Lansdowne, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tennyson Center for Children at Colorado Christian | Denver, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Denver Childrens Foundation | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| F R I E N D S of Broomfield | Broomfield, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Responders Childrens Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Heals | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | El Segundo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project K9 Hero | Whitwell, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Revive Church Colorado | Arvada, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Triad | Parker, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | Bartlesville, OK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A Musafir | Denver, CO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| L Garcia | Denver, CO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Flatirons Community Church | Lafayette, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Food for Orphans Inc | Colorado Spgs, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lion Project | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Project Pave Inc | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shannons Hope | Wheat Ridge, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wish of a Lifetime | Denver, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | San Diego, CA | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Peak Denver | Denver, CO | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vessels Ministries Inc | Arvada, CO | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Bicycle Relief Nfp | Chicago, IL | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hope Speaks International | Lees Summit, MO | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Advancing Warriors International | Rollinsville, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Childsafe Colorado Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith Bible Chapel International | Arvada, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Farm Rescue | Horace, ND | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hooves to Freedom Inc | St Simons Is, GA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc | Yarmouth Port, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| K9S for Warriors Inc | Ponte Vedra Beach, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Linus Project | Belton, MO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Sports Center for the Disabled Inc | Golden, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Navy Special Operations Foundation | Virginia Bch, VA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Smile Inc | Virginia Beach, VA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pathways for Little Feet | Houston, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Realities for Children Charities | Fort Collins, CO | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brave Beginnings Inc | Tinton Falls, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cure International Inc | Spring Lake, MI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | Englewood, CO | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gleaning for the World Inc | Concord, VA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Down Syndrome Society | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pawsitivity | Saint Paul, MN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Primarily Primates Inc | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
17 of 79 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 27%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Crosspurpose
Mental Health Facility and Relief Fund - Adoptive Families Coalition
Exclusively toward the Family Crowdfunding Campaign - Salvation Army
the Lambuth Family Center fund - Denver Rescue Mission
Fort Collins Rescue Mission fire fund - Lutheran Social Service of Colorado
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Fund - Brown International Academy
Brown International Academy to help fund the physical education teacher position for the 2024/2025 school year
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 92 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $211,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 9 | $333,250 | $40,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $515,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 30 | $315,175 | $5,000 |
| 2025 | 25 | $415,500 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
68% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Markham Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Foundation Source 501 Silverside Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19809. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 85-2938038 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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