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Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$688k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$32k25%
FY20249$32k22%
FY202312$36k33%
FY20229$40k11%
FY20218$34k25%
FY202015$30k20%
FY201913$35k23%
FY201814$30kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$131kArts & Culture$48kFood & Nutrition$39kReligion$24kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$7kPhilanthropy$6kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hinton Rural Life Center Inc$34,0008n/a
Truett Childrens Home$33,0007n/a
Cherokee County Sharing Center Inc$29,00067%
Brasstown Community Civic Center Inc$20,0005n/a
Lillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc$14,80062%
The Still Place Inc$12,50053%
Clay County Food Pantry Inc$10,00034%
Cherokee County Arts Council of Nc$8,5003n/a
Valley River Arts Guild Inc$8,50052%
Brasstown Concert Association Inc$8,2506n/a
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All grantees of Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hinton Rural Life Center Inc$34,0008n/a
Truett Childrens Home$33,0007n/a
Cherokee County Sharing Center Inc$29,00067%
Brasstown Community Civic Center Inc$20,0005n/a
Lillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc$14,80062%
The Still Place Inc$12,50053%
Clay County Food Pantry Inc$10,00034%
Cherokee County Arts Council of Nc$8,5003n/a
Valley River Arts Guild Inc$8,50052%
Brasstown Concert Association Inc$8,2506n/a
Texana Community Development Club Inc$7,0002n/a
Reach of Cherokee County Inc$6,20030%
One Dozen Who Care Inc$6,000213%
Womens Resource Center$5,00023%
Clay County Hearts for Kids$5,000224%
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated$4,0001n/a
Umar Services Inc$3,75010%
Christian Love Ministries Inc$3,50021%
Hayesville First United Methodist Church Inc$2,0001n/a
Special Olympics North Carolina Inc$1,00010%
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCherokee County Sharing Center Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetLillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc: $14,800 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetThe Still Place Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetClay County Food Pantry Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetValley River Arts Guild Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetReach of Cherokee County Inc: $6,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOne Dozen Who Care Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWomens Resource Center: $5,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetClay County Hearts for Kids: $5,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetUmar Services Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Love Ministries Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSpecial Olympics North Carolina Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Symphony Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Dogwood Health TrustNC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Nantahala Health Foundation · Wnc Bridge Foundation · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee 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.

About Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee

How much does Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee give?
Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee reported 12 grants totaling $32,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Arts & Culture (18%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Hinton Rural Life Center Inc ($34k), Truett Childrens Home ($33k), Cherokee County Sharing Center Inc ($29k).
Does Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Nantahala Health Foundation.
Where is Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee based?
Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee is based in MO.

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 32 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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