· Private foundation
Gilbert J Martin Foundation a Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of GILBERT J MARTIN FOUNDATION A CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $600k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $300,000 |
| SALK INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UCSB FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UCSD HEALTH - MOORES CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| AZTEC ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALFOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| FIR GROVE BOOSTER INC | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against -81% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k 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
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +88%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +46%
- SDSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WFWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +41%
- HSHOMEFRONT SAN DIEGOone grant, 2017 · $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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
The arc of san diego supports and empowers persons with disabilities to achieve their life goals.
Jewish family service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient san diego.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 87 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 THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTMED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NOAH HOMES 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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Country Friends · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Cushman Foundation · The Nordson Corporation 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 Gilbert J Martin Foundation a Charitable Trust 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.