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Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundation at a glance

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Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$290kEnvironment$99kAnimals$87kScience & Tech$64kPhilanthropy$48kEducation$38kPublic Benefit$12kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$560k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
SALK INSTITUTE$10,000
USET FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL$10,000
OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE$5,000
DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$5,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION$5,000
AUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE)$5,000
CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO$3,500
THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION$3,000
NAVY LEAGUE OF THE US$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIDELITY GIFT FUND: $10k → 16%THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%LIVINGSTON YOUTH SOCCER: $5k → 10%MONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY: $5k → 14%DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS INC: $20k → 11%CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO: $7k → 12%SOUTHERN CAL EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $40k → 14%AUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE): $5k → 14%PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE PEEPS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 16%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $13k → 5%AUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE): $10k → 16%DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS INC: $5k → 11%CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO: $6k → 12%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $30k → 14%USET FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%AUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE): $10k → 16%DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO: $7k → 11%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $25k → 14%USET FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%FIDELITY GIFT FUND: $5k → 16%CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SOUTHERN CAL EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $23k → 14%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%AUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE): $5k → 16%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $19k → 14%USET FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $13k → 14%USET FOUNDATION: $8k → 5%THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN CAL EQUINE SPORTS: $5k → 14%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $5k → 11%THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $5k → 11%THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $5k → 11%VILLA CHARDONNAY: $20k → 11%VILLA CHARDONNAY: $6k → 11%OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $9k → 11%22ND DAA DEL MAR: $73k → 11%22ND DAA DEL MAR: $18k → 11%22ND DAA DEL MAR: $8k → 11%OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MA
OR
NJ
CA
NE
VA
AZ
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$604k · 17 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$604k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+14%

Still filing today

35%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $86k · revenue +135%
  • OD
    OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • LY
    LIVINGSTON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -11%
  • PF
    Peeps Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MH
    MONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Always Dreaming Horse Ranch and Res

Horse Shelter

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2
Horse Hugs
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3
Amador County Equine Sanctuary - Rescue Rehab & Retirement

The Amador County Equine Sanctuary is dedicated to rescuing and re-homing horses in need through adoption and re-homing programs designed to offer adoptable equine an opportunity for a second career and life-long safe sanctuary to…

Animals
4
Drage Second Chance Ranch
Animals
5
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
6
California Coastal Horse Rescue

To help end neglect and abuse to horses

Animals
7
Victoria Livestock Show
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8
Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue
Animals
9
Lehigh Valley Dressage Association
Recreation & Sports
10
Swingin' D Horse Rescue
Animals
11
Tango's Wings

To rescue abandoned or neglected horses and find good homes for them

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12
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saving Horses Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peeps Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

22ND DAA DEL MAR: $99,000 · Other22ND DAA DEL MARSOUTHERN CAL EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $62,500 · OtherSOUTHERN CAL EQUESTRIAN SPORTSUSET FOUNDATION: $38,000 · OtherUSET FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE): $30,000 · OtherAUGUST PROMISE (FIDELITY CHARITABLE)CALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGO: $28,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA DRESSAGE SOCIETY - SAN DIEGOFIDELITY GIFT FUND: $18,000 · OtherTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherSALK INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Other+10 more: $38,000 · Other+10 moreSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $86,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQ…UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES EQUESTRI…DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsDRESSAGE ASSOCIATION O…OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $48,500 · EducationOCEAN DISCOVER…THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $35,479 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDGE …VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $30,000 · AnimalsPeeps Foundation Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsMONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $2,000 · AnimalsSAVING HORSES INC: $2,000 · AnimalsDOG DREAMS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$381,000Recreation & Sports$131,000Education$83,979Animals$47,000Crime & Legal$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS: $86,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $48,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: $35,479 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetDRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLIVINGSTON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDOG DREAMS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCanine Angels Service Teams: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NW MONTANA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS ↗
  • Who funds THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds LIVINGSTON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Peeps Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds SAVING HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Canine Angels Service Teams ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NW MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIVINGSTON LIBRARY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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