Marcus Foundation Grants

The Marcus Foundation focuses on addressing critical needs and systemic challenges, primarily in hunger alleviation and sustainable practices. They seek partnerships with organizations that promote innovative food resources and sustainability. Their funding strategy emphasizes collaboration to amplify resources and enhance impact while fostering immediate solutions to hunger issues. The Foundation believes in long-term stewardship and the importance of sustainability for future generations, aiming to create systemic change alongside immediate support.

Note: The Foundation is not currently accepting unsolicited proposals. Written inquiries regarding matching grants and partnerships in our stated areas of interest are welcome.
Values and Strategy
Our funding and partnering approach focuses on meeting short-term critical needs and addressing underlying system-wide challenges. In both cases The Marcus Foundation seeks partners and grantees – organizations and foundations – that are looking for opportunities to explore new ventures, and bringing creative thinking to their work.
Partnerships
The Marcus Foundation funds primarily in two areas:
We collaborate with other funding organizations to multiply the resources available to grantees.The Foundation serves as a broker between organizations and qualified vendors when this can advance the mission of grantees.We offer the experience of Foundation officers on short-term assignments to tackle specific problems or seize timely opportunities when a grantee needs immediate help and we have the internal capacity to respond.