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Donna L and Edward E Martins Foundation at a glance

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Donna L and Edward E Martins Foundation

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.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Public Benefit$258kHealth$214kEducation$201kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$39kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$748Religion$650Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAYWARD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$56,000
FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE$51,849
HAYWARD AREA RECREATION DISTRICT FOUNDATION$20,000
HAYWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY$13,000
OKIZU$10,000
UC BERKELEY$4,000
HAYWARD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $341 → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $300 → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $64 → 10%CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $49 → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$676k · 13 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$676k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

46%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE
    4× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +386%
  • HA
    HAYWARD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +74%
  • CS
    CENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $39k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • KI
    KQED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • SM
    Samuel Merritt University
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

1
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
3
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
4
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
5
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
6
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
7
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
8
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
9
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
10
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
11
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
12
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yosemite Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Centro Social Monsenhor Julio a Martins Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HAYWARD: $257,145 · OtherCITY OF HAYWARDHAYWARD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $56,000 · OtherHAYWARD UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTHAYWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $13,000 · Other+17 more: $27,583 · Other+17 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $203,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDAT…THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE: $114,641 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE+4 more: $3,000 · EducationHAYWARD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $47,560 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $39,254 · Human ServicesHAYWARD AREA RECREATION AND PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $275 · Recreation & SportsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 · InternationalJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust: $100 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 · Environment
Other$353,728Education$321,241Arts & Culture$52,560Human Services$39,254Philanthropy$20,000Recreation & Sports$275International$200Environment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $203,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE: $114,641 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHAYWARD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $47,560 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO SOCIAL MONSENHOR JULIO A MARTINS FOUNDATION: $39,254 over 6y, 12% of budgetKQED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel Merritt University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAYWARD ROTARY CLUB: $250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAYWARD LITERACY PLUS COUNCIL: $200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN AAUW-SAN JOSE BRANCH: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Fremont Bank Foundati…East Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fremont Bank FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fremont Bank Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 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 Donna L and Edward E Martins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donna L and Edward E Martins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Donna L and Edward E Martins Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Donna L and Edward E Martins Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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