Markle Foundation
{{for|the former British charitable organization|Markle Windsor Foundation|Sussex Royal}}
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{{update|date = May 2025}}
{{Infobox organization
|name = Markle Foundation
|image = Logo Markle Foundation.png
|size = 250px
|founded = {{start date and age | 1927|04|26}}
|founder = John Markle (1858 - 1933)
Mary Markle (1853 - 1927)
|type = T20 Private foundation
501(c)(3)
|leader_name = Ellen V. Futter (acting){{cite web|url = https://www.markle.org/about-markle/expert/ellen-v-futter/|title = Ellen V. Futter|website = Markle Foundation|accessdate = May 8, 2025}}
|leader_title = President
|leader_title2 = Managing Director Health
|leader_title3 = Chief Operating Officer
|leader_name3 = Beth F. Cobert
(Markle Foundation)
|focus = Technology, Health care, and National security
|tax_id = 13-1770307"[http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2014/131/770/2014-131770307-0b62a061-F.pdf Form 990-PF: return of Private Foundation]". John and Mary R Markle Foundation. Guidestar. June 30, 2014.
|board_of_directors = • Zoë Baird
• Steven Denning
• Cheryl C. Effron
• Dr. Christopher Howard
• Suzanne N. Johnson
• Gilman Louie
• Dr. James Manyika
• Kathleen A. Murphy
• Herbert Pardes, MD
• Stanley S. Shuman{{Cite web|url=https://www.markle.org/about-markle/#board-of-directors|title=Board of Directors|publisher=Markle Foundation|access-date= December 20, 2020}}
|subsidiaries = Skillful (A Markle Initiative)
Beth F. Cobert (CEO)
|headquarters = New York City
|status =
|revenue = $10,494,800 (2018) {{Cite web|url=https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/markle-foundation,131770307/ |title=Markle Foundation |publisher=Cause IQ |access-date= December 20, 2020}}
|revenue_year =
|expenses = $133,324,036 (2018)
|expenses_year =
|website = {{URL|http://www.markle.org}}
}}
Markle Foundation is a New York–based private foundation established in 1927 by American industrialist and financier John Markle and his wife, Mary. Its focus is technology, health care, and national security.
History
Formally incorporated on April 26, 1927,"[https://www.proquest.com/docview/104160911/ Markle Foundation Ready to Operate]". The New York Times. April 30, 1927. p. 6. as the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation,"[https://www.proquest.com/docview/104247569/ Incorporation of Markle Foundation Sought: J.P. and Junius Morgan Jr. Among Signers]". The New York Times. February 4, 1927. p. 2. the organization began by funding traditional social welfare programs as well as projects that focused on medicine and medical research. In 1969, Lloyd Morrisett, the Markle Foundation's president at that time, shifted the foundation's focus to mass communications in a democratic society. In 1998, when Zoë Baird became president, she [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928040145/http://www.markle.org/our-story/history shifted the foundation's focus] to accelerating the use of information and information technology to address critical public problems, particularly in the areas of health and national security. For fiscal year 2008, Ms Baird's compensation from this tax exempt charitable organization was recorded as $505,750.00, in the Form 990-PF filed by Markle.{{Cite web |url=http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/markle_2008_990pf.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106150830/http://www.markle.org/downloadable_assets/markle_2008_990pf.pdf |archive-date=2011-01-06 |url-status=dead }}
In 1948, the Foundation established an award to assist qualified people wishing to remain in academic medicine.{{Cite journal|date=1949-03-19|title=Markle Foundation Scholarships in Medicine|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=163|issue=4142|pages=437–438|doi=10.1038/163437c0|bibcode=1949Natur.163S.437.|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}
Personnel
- Ellen V. Futter - Interim President
- Beth F. Cobert – Chief Operating Officer, Markle Foundation
and CEO, Skillful (A Markle Initiative) - Carol Diamond – Managing Director Health
- Juliana Herman – Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor
- Denis McDonough – Senior Advisor
- Sharon Butler – Chief Financial Officer
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.markle.org}}
- [http://www.rockarch.org/collections/nonrockorgs/markle.php Markle Foundation Archives]
- [http://www.policyarchive.org/collections/markle/ Policy Archive Markle Collection]
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Category:Foundations based in the United States
Category:Organizations established in 1927
Category:1927 establishments in the United States
Category:501(c)(3) organizations
Category:Organizations based in New York City
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