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Gerard and Carolyn Martin Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$298kReligion$116kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$17kInternational$15kFood & Nutrition$12kMembership Benefit$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUES$50,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$28,000
DONORS CHOOSE$23,969
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
PORTLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH CEM$10,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF SOUTHLAKE$6,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$5,000
GOFUNDME$3,000
Individual grant recipient$815
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $10k → 10%Metropolitan Ministries: $2k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISITRIES: $2k → 13%THE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 10%CHRISTAIN CARE CENTER: $5k → 10%FAITH NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $3k → 10%Faith Neighborhood Center: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
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CO
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TN
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OK
GA
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FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 36% of Gerard and Carolyn Martin Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 27% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Gerard and Carolyn Martin Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$434k · 10 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
27

Total granted

$434k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • CF
    CUES FUND
    5× · 2021–2025 · $219k · revenue +57%
  • CC
    Christian Care Center Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +37%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AW
    Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT OF SOUTH LAKE
    one grant, 2024 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

3
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
4
Amazing Facts International

To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…

Religion
5
Miracles From Heaven
International
6
Hope for the Heart
7
Waterfront Rescue Mission Inc

Demonstrating god's goodness by providing rescue and recovery services in jesus' name.

Housing & Shelter
8
Victory At Sarasota Inc

We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…

Religion
9
On Mission Network

On mission network is a nationwide collection of christ-centered ministry partners who equip and send out volunteers to provide disaster relief and generational impact through sustainable locally sourced development.

Human Services
10
Hope Ministries

Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…

Human Services
11
United Saints Worldwide

United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.

Religion
12
Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%63%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,543

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.

05the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CUES FUND — $219,000 · ReligionCUES FUNDSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEAndrew Wommack Ministries Inc — $9,500 · Religion+1 more — $200 · ReligionALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $79,420 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHPORTLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH CEM — $10,000 · OtherPORTLAND LUTHERAN CHURCH CEMNEW BEGINNINGS — $7,500 · OtherTHE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT OF SOUTH LAKE — $7,500 · OtherTHE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF SOUTHLAKE — $6,000 · Other+21 more — $40,982 · Other+21 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG — $74,610 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+1 more — $1,800 · EducationChristian Care Center Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center — $9,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $4,150 · Human ServicesOPERATION HELO INC — $7,350 · Public Safety & DisasterSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY — $5,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc — $1,000 · AnimalsGOFUNDMEORG — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCARRY THE LOAD — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Religion$243,700Other$166,402Education$76,410Human Services$28,150Public Safety & Disaster$7,350Animals$6,000Philanthropy$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCUES FUND — $219,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $74,610 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Care Center Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HELO INC — $7,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $4,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC — $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHEART INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CUES FUND
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds Christian Care Center Inc
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Andrew Wommack Ministries Inc
  • Who funds Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center
  • Who funds OPERATION HELO INC
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG
  • Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds CARRY THE LOAD
  • Who funds Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ELDERHEART 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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL11.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Gerard and Carolyn Martin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Seaside Seabird Sanctuary0% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gerard and Carolyn Martin Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gerard and Carolyn Martin Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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