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Felix E Martin Jr Foundation Inc

The felix e.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$932k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$5.8MRecreation & Sports$5.2MPublic Benefit$4.0MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHealth$844kPublic Safety & Disaster$286kArts & Culture$279kPhilanthropy$222kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $2,146,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,190,205 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,905 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $489k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAPPY FEET EQUALS LEARNING FEET INC: $5k → 17%HAPPY FEET EQUALS LEARNING FEET INC: $5k → 17%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $6k → 13%PATHWAY OF HOPE: $17k → 22%PATHWAY OF HOPE: $14k → 22%PATHWAY OF HOPE: $12k → 22%PATHWAY OF HOPE: $6k → 22%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 29 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$17M
$714k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+19%

Still filing today

52%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PA
    PENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +79%
  • HI
    HOPE2ALL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +2%
  • MC
    MUHLENBERG COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +277%

Funded once

  • KS
    KENTUCKY STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $258k · revenue -87% · 78% of their budget
  • OH
    Owensboro Health Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +14%
  • BH
    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Fo
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
Bowling Green Warren County Community Hospital Corporation

Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

Health
2
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
3
Russell County Kentucky Hospital District Health Facilities Corp

To provide quality, compassionate healthcare consistent with the trust and support of the communities we serve.

Health
4
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
5
Highlands Hospital Corporation Dba Highlands Regional Medical Center

Community healthcare providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services for residents of southeastern kentucky. the organization ceased operations on july 31, 2019.

Health
6
Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc

To serve as philanthropic connector for donors in the central kentucky region who wish to make their community a better place.

Education
8
Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center Inc

To act as a regional blood bank

Health
9
Casey County Hospital District

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…

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10
Kentucky Industrial Development Council

Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.

Community Improvement
11
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

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…

Health
12
Deaconess Union County Hospital Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muhlenberg County Opportunity Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 61 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUHLENBERG COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $4,990,704 · OtherMUHLENBERG COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONGREATER MUHLENBERG PARKS & RECREATION SYSTEM: $4,944,981 · OtherGREATER MUHLENBERG PARKS & RECREATION SYSTEMMUHLENBERG COUNTY FISCAL COURT: $3,290,016 · OtherMUHLENBERG COUNTY FISCAL COURTJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $632,180 · Other+37 more: $2,158,900 · Other+37 moreMUHLENBERG ECONOMIC GROWTH ALLIANCE: $931,500 · Community ImprovementPENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $237,431 · Community ImprovementHOPE2ALL INC: $206,914 · HealthOwensboro Health Inc: $200,000 · HealthPENNYROYAL REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH- MENTAL RETARDATION BOARD INC: $138,000 · HealthBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Fo: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $13,250 · HealthKENTUCKY STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $257,500 · Recreation & SportsMUHLENBERG COUNTY FAIR INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC: $182,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $12,015 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE COALFIELD INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe Learning Center of Madisonville Inc: $44,200 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $30,000 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationMUHLENBERG COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTER CLUB INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $13,800 · EducationMUHLENBERG COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $122,849 · Employment
Other$16,016,781Community Improvement$1,168,931Health$608,164Recreation & Sports$277,500Philanthropy$222,015Education$133,000Employment$122,849

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 budgetKENTUCKY STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $257,500 over 1y, 78% of budgetPENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $237,431 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE2ALL INC: $206,914 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetOwensboro Health Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE DEPOSITORY INC: $182,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPENNYROYAL REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH- MENTAL RETARDATION BOARD INC: $138,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUHLENBERG COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $122,849 over 6y, 22% of budgetSANCTUARY INC: $77,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Fo: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPATHWAY OF HOPE INC: $48,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetThe Learning Center of Madisonville Inc: $44,200 over 4y, 12% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MUHLENBERG CO INC: $27,247 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUHLENBERG COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTER CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetMUHLENBERG COUNTY FAIR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetMUHLENBERG COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT OF GRAHAM DIVISI: $18,250 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $17,225 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $13,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $12,015 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREMEN COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COALFIELD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHAPPY FEET EQUALS LEARNING FEET INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WEST KENTUCKY INC: $9,800 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $7,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonville: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC: $5,010 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Owensboro Health IncThe Community Foundat…United Way of the Coa…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Baptist Health Deacon…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…Blue Grass Community …Baird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY23.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Felix E Martin Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Felix E Martin Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 61 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 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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