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George Rr Martin Literary Foundation Trust at a glance

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George Rr Martin Literary Foundation Trust

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.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
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.

Recreation & Sports$5.0MArts & Culture$456kHealth$25kScience & Tech$12kEducation$7kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$5,150
Median grant
4
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION$200,000
IAIA FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION$5,500
CLARION FOUNDATION$5,150
RIVERDALE CHILDREN'S THEATER$5,000
BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA$5,000
MARBLEJAM KIDS INC$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLARION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA: $5k → 20%RIVERDALE CHILDREN'S THEATER: $5k → 28%NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%WALTER JON WILLIAMS: $4k → 19%CLARION WEST WRITERS WORKSHOP: $15k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5.0M → 14%MARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $5k → 7%ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP: $5k → 7%CLARION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%WALTER JON WILLIAMS: $4k → 19%CLARION WEST WRITERS WORKSHOP: $8k → 9%MARBLE JAM KIDS INC: $5k → 7%ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST: $4k → 7%NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%CLARION WEST: $4k → 9%MARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $5k → 7%ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST: $4k → 7%NEW MEXICO FILM FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%CLARION WEST: $4k → 9%MARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $5k → 7%ODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOP: $2k → 7%NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $5k → 12%CLARION WEST WRITERS WORKSHOP: $3k → 9%MARBLE JAM KIDS INC: $5k → 7%IAIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%IAIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%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

NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
NJ
CA
AZ
NM
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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 9 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$284k
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+151%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    THE CLARION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +73%
  • MARBLEJAM KIDS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +4%
  • LS
    LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +151%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
The Emrys Foundation

Expand the impact of the literay arts

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2
Writing By Writers

To create a rigorous, compassionate and inclusive environment to learn the art of reading and writing from accomplished authors.

Education
3
Zora Neale Hurston Richard Wright Foundation

The mission of the Hurston Wright Foundation is to mentor discover and honor Black writers providing community and professional development through culturally relevant services support and opportunities.

Public Benefit
4
The Carl Brandon Society

Literary and educational

Arts & Culture
5
The Authors League Fund Est By the Authors League of America Inc
Philanthropy
6
Art of Brooklyn Festival

The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is an annual event that brings Brooklyns celebrated film and media makers together with their peers across the country and around the world. AoBFF is a filmmaker-focused event, platform and showcase for…

Arts & Culture
7
The American Playwriting Foundation
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8
Poetry Flash

Poetry flash builds community through literature

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9
National Book Foundation Inc

The mission of the national book foundation is to celebrate the best literature published in the united states, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture. nbf carries out its mission through awards &…

—
10
Maija Golden Creative Writing Foundation
Education
11
Dzanc Books Inc

Dzanc Books was hailed as the future of publishing in Publishers Weekly in December 2007. Beginning with modest goals of publishing 4-6 titles each year, the house now publishes between 10-15 books annually. Notable and award-winning…

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Writers Ink

San Diego Writers, Ink nurtures writers and fosters a literary community by: serving as a hub for the literary community, promoting literature, providing artistic development for writers at all levels, and facilitating artistic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Authors Guild Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marblejam Kids 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northwestern University: $5,000,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversityTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherIAIA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherClarion West: $34,350 · Other+6 more: $34,750 · OtherTHE CLARION FOUNDATION: $25,600 · Arts & CultureNew Mexico Film Foundation: $22,000 · Arts & CultureODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST: $8,043 · Arts & CultureMARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $25,000 · HealthBROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$5,000,000Other$419,100Arts & Culture$55,643Health$25,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetClarion West: $34,350 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CLARION FOUNDATION: $25,600 over 5y, 11% of budgetMARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNew Mexico Film Foundation: $22,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetODYSSEY WRITING WORKSHOPS CHARITABLE TRUST: $8,043 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 George Rr Martin Literary Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Rr Martin Literary Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Marblejam Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to George Rr Martin Literary Foundation Trust 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 16 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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