· Public charity
Felix E Martin Jr Foundation Inc
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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.
The 25 grants below total $2,146,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,190,205 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,905 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $489k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUHLENBERG ECONOMIC GROWTH ALLIANCE | $931,500 |
| MUHLENBERG COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $446,800 |
| GREATER MUHLENBERG PARKS & RECREATION SYSTEM | $143,941 |
| MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $111,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY | $91,750 |
| MUHLENBERG COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $75,370 |
| CITY OF GREENVILLE | $67,415 |
| HOPE2ALL INC | $43,000 |
| MUHLENBERG COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $29,300 |
| MUHLENBERG COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE | $29,000 |
| MUHLENBERG COUNTY REGIONAL DISASTER FACILITY | $19,500 |
| CITY OF CENTRAL CITY | $16,750 |
| KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| MUHLENBERG COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL | $14,560 |
| MUHLENBERG EXTENSION ARTS ADVISORY COUNCIL | $13,750 |
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 (FY17–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- PAPENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +79%
- HIHOPE2ALL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +2%
- MCMUHLENBERG COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +277%
Funded once
- KSKENTUCKY STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $258k · revenue -87% · 78% of their budget
- OHOwensboro Health Incone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +14%
- BHBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Foone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
To provide quality, compassionate healthcare consistent with the trust and support of the communities we serve.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Community healthcare providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services for residents of southeastern kentucky. the organization ceased operations on july 31, 2019.
Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…
To serve as philanthropic connector for donors in the central kentucky region who wish to make their community a better place.
To act as a regional blood bank
The treatment and care of ill or injured members of the liberty, ky area and its surrounding geographic region is the hospital's exempt purpose. the revenue generated is used for providing the cost of this care. 7,359 days of inpatient…
Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.
At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…
Deaconess union county hospital offers a 24-hour emergency department, a hospital-based ambulance service and a full range of diagnostic services including lab, imaging, and mammography, as well physical therapy, cardiopulmonary care, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muhlenberg County Opportunity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of Muhlenberg Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 61 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 MUHLENBERG ECONOMIC GROWTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE2ALL INC ↗
- Who funds Owensboro Health Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYROYAL REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH- MENTAL RETARDATION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Fo ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds The Learning Center of Madisonville Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MUHLENBERG CO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COUNTY FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT OF GRAHAM DIVISI ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DRAKESBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Owensboro Health Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · United Way of the Coalfield Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Felix E Martin Jr 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.