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Fred R Martin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPIRE FILES INC | $50,000 |
| LIBERATION ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| TRI-VALLEY CARES | $25,000 |
| HEAL PALESTINE | $25,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $25,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CIVIL JUSTICE FUND | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| VETERANS FOR PEACE | $15,000 |
| THE LAB SF | $12,000 |
| CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO INC | $12,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S FORUM | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| REBEL ARMY RUNS | $10,000 |
| FELTON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Fred R Martin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- EFEMPIRE FILES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +83%
- PCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +32%
- PPARTNERSHIPFORCIVILJUSTICEFUND2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TMTHE MEDIA FREEDON FOUNDATIONPROJECT CENSOREDone grant, 2023 · $20k
- N'N 'AIKNE O MAUI INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- GIG I RIGHTS NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Research and education of United Nations activities
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
To end u.s. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives.
CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.
/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
A unique collaborative of some of the world's leading activists, scholars and thinkers, IFG organizes large public teach-ins and invitational seminars, and produces publications.
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Global Justice Corp and the most unlike its peers is Rebel Army Runs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 EMPIRE FILES INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPFORCIVILJUSTICEFUND ↗
- Who funds HEAL PALESTINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SF ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans For Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds People's Forum Inc ↗
- Who funds REBEL ARMY RUNS INC ↗
- Who funds Climate Defiance Action ↗
- Who funds Felton Institute ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON CONSCIENCE & WAR ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Congo ↗
- Who funds ROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON INSTITUTE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH ↗
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: Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fred R Martin Foundation 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.
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