Kentucky · Private foundation
H Gordon Martin Foundation
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.
- $29k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $573k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations H Gordon Martin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $29k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $39k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $42k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $40k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $38k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $28k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $41k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $44k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $31,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Go Pantry Corporation | $14,250 | 6 | 0% |
| New Haven School Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Erlanger Methodist Church Inc | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fairhaven Rescue Mission | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Currey Ingram Academy | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brighton Center Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Transitions Incorporated | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $31,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Go Pantry Corporation | $14,250 | 6 | 0% |
| New Haven School Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Erlanger Methodist Church Inc | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fairhaven Rescue Mission | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Currey Ingram Academy | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brighton Center Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Transitions Incorporated | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bawac Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Childrens Hospital | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Battle of Franklin Trust Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodland Middle School PTO | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Erpenbeck Elementary Parent Teacher Student Organization | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget H Gordon Martin Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Celanese Foundation · The Butler Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Miramar Charitable Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About H Gordon Martin Foundation
- How much does H Gordon Martin Foundation give?
- H Gordon Martin Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $29,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does H Gordon Martin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (71%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Health (6%).
- Who are H Gordon Martin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freestore Foodbank Inc ($32k), Go Pantry Corporation ($14k), New Haven School Inc ($10k).
- Does H Gordon Martin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does H Gordon Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as H Gordon Martin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig, The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500, Celanese Foundation.
- Where is H Gordon Martin Foundation based?
- H Gordon Martin Foundation is based in KY.
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