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Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation at a glance

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Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
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 2024.

Environment$544kInternational$78kScience & Tech$25kArts & Culture$24kAnimals$16kHuman Services$15kEducation$14kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONGABAY ORG CORPORATION$20,000
HEALTH IN HARMONY INC$10,000
NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC$10,000
THE INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
PHOENIX CONSERVANCY$5,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$5,000
HELP PERU INC$5,000
IF NOT US THEN WHO$5,000
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$3,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATURE RIGHTS COUNCIL: $5k → 18%HELP PERU INC: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 14 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$610k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+5%

Still filing today

93%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalEducationArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MONGABAY ORG CORP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +396%
  • HI
    Health in Harmony
    8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +628%
  • NATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +168%

Funded once

  • FS
    FUNDO SOCIOAMBIENTAL CASA
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +39%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Natura International Inc

Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…

Public Benefit
5
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
6
Natura Bolivia Foundation

The Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to implementing, and evaluating the impact of conservation and development programs, with a focus on watershed conservation, protected areas, and incentive based conservation in Bolivia. We work…

International
7
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

—
8
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp; the most unlike its peers is If Not Us Then Who. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONGABAY ORG CORP: $248,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORPNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · EnvironmentNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONALPHOENIX CONSERVANCY: $27,000 · EnvironmentPHOENIX CONSERVANCYIf Not Us Then Who: $17,500 · Environment+5 more: $25,750 · Environment+5 moreHealth in Harmony: $127,000 · HealthHealth in HarmonyFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · InternationalFINCA INTER…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHE UNION O…ACATE AMAZON CONSERVATION INC: $13,500 · InternationalACATE AMAZO…INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $8,000 · InternationalINTERNATION…PATH: $5,000 · InternationalPATHFUNDO SOCIOAMBIENTAL CASA: $15,000 · OtherFUNDO SOCI…KOCE-TV FOUNDATION - PBS SOCAL: $11,500 · OtherKOCE-TV FO…ST MATTHEWS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $8,200 · OtherST MATTHEW…INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherINTERNATIO…CONSERVATION THROUGH POVERTY ALLEVIATION INTERNATI: $2,500 · OtherPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · OtherPUBLIC MED…HELP PERU INC: $5,000 · OtherHELP PERU …NATURE RIGHTS COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherNATURE RIG…+3 more: $4,000 · Other+3 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $32,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR CONSERVATION PEACEBUILDING: $15,500 · AnimalsSamford University: $5,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $500 · Education
Environment$393,250Health$127,000International$76,500Other$66,200Philanthropy$37,500Animals$15,500Education$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP: $248,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $127,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNATURE AND CULTURE INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX CONSERVANCY: $27,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIf Not Us Then Who: $17,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSERVATION PEACEBUILDING: $15,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetACATE AMAZON CONSERVATION INC: $13,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSamford University: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK: $5,250 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPATH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP PERU INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION - WORLDWIDE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $500 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.

Stockel Family Founda…The David and Lucile …National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Stockel Family FoundationCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stockel Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%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
    2get 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
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Francis and Christine Martin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Francis and Christine Martin Family 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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