· Private foundation
David & Susan Martin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENTLEY SCHOOL | $47,500 |
| UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| OAKLAND POLICE EMERGENCY NET | $20,000 |
| Hospitals without Borders | $12,500 |
| REALITY SF CHURCH | $12,000 |
| HILLSIDE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH GUILD | $6,000 |
| THE CANCER LEAGUE INC | $6,000 |
| LITTLE WISHES | $5,000 |
| OAKLAND POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $5,000 |
| LA FIRE DEPT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| O'NR | $2,500 |
| NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PROJECT RESCUE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BSBENTLEY SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $123k · revenue +7%
- TCThe Cancer League Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $89k · revenue +135%
- PRPROJECT RESCUE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +512%
Funded once
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +24%
- YWYOUTH WITH A MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $18k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BENTLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Cancer League Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds Oakland Police Emergency Net ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Notes for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
- Who funds SAN LEANDRO BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds One Love Initiative dba Circuit Riders ↗
- Who funds St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cameo ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Endowment Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · E Richard Jones Family Foundation Mr E Richard Jones · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David & Susan Martin Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.