· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HINTON RURAL LIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC | $4,000 |
| BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CA INC | $4,000 |
| CLAY COUNTY HEARTS FOR KIDS AND SENIORS | $4,000 |
| LILITH LIDSEEN PERFORM ARTS ASSOC INC | $3,000 |
| SOCIETY ST VINCENT DEPAUL ST WILLIAM CON | $2,500 |
| THE STILL PLACE INC | $2,500 |
| REACH OF CHEROKEE COUNTY INC | $2,500 |
| BRASSTOWN CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC | $1,500 |
| VALLEY RIVER ARTS GUILD INC | $1,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MURPHY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +13%
- LLLillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
- ROREACH OF CHEROKEE COUNTY INC3× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- USUMAR SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -12%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL ST WILLIAMone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
To provide quality affordable rural medical services
Food distribution to the needy
A theater for community theatrical groups, cultural, performance and other cultural or historical activities.
Provide assistance to individuals in need in the nash county, north carolina area.
The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.
Provide food and supplies for the low income and needy
To acquire and distribute resouces to bring relief to those in financial need in chattooga county and to walk out the words of jesus.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
To provide services and resources to individuals and families in crisis.
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
As a non-profit, the black mountain counseling center provides mental health counseling without regard to a client's ability to pay. services are provided by licensed, experienced counselors working with children, adults and families…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHEROKEE COUNTY SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STILL PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL OF NC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RIVER ARTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OF CHEROKEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds One Dozen Who Care Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY HEARTS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UMAR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LOVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dub and Murray Martin Cherokee. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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