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Helen Tobman Martin Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$67kHuman Services$31kEducation$27kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$15kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$3kYouth Development$500
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$374k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Three Square Food Bank$5,000
St Jude Children's Research$5,000
Westcare$5,000
Baby's Bounty$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Freedom House Sober Living$2,500
Ronald McDonald House Charities$2,000
Helping Hands of Vegas Valley$2,000
Help of Southern Nevada$1,600
Foster Kinship$1,000
Project 150$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Help of Southern Nevada: $2k → 13%Help of Southern Nevada: $1k → 13%Helping Hands of Vegas Valley: $2k → 13%Helping Hands of Vegas Valley: $2k → 13%Helping Hands of Vegas Valley: $1k → 13%Helping Hands of Vegas Valley: $1k → 13%Baby's Bounty: $5k → 13%Baby's Bounty: $5k → 13%Baby's Bounty: $4k → 13%Baby's Bounty: $4k → 13%Baby's Bounty: $4k → 13%Project 150: $1k → 13%Project 150: $1k → 13%Project Marilyn: $1k → 13%Foster Kinship: $1k → 13%Foster Kinship: $1k → 13%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 12 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$169k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+136%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • W
    Westcare
    7× · 2020–2026 · $36k
  • NW
    Nevada Women in Philanthropy
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    6× · 2021–2026 · $25k · revenue -60%

Funded once

  • SN
    SUNSHINE NEVADA ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +192%
  • TB
    Temple Beth Sholom
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TS
    The Smith Center for the Performing Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +249%
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
Hopelink of Southern Nevada

Hopelink of southern nevada (hopelink) is a nevada nonprofit organization established in 1991 to provide services throughout clark county. hopelink's mission is to build a better community by preventing homelessness, keeping families…

Housing & Shelter
2
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
3
Shelter Providers of Southern Nevada Inc Dba Homeaid Southern Nevada

Promote and facilitate the construction of housing for transitionally homeless men, women, and children

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4
Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
5
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas

Habitat for humanity las vegas, inc. (habitat) a not-for-profit organization located in las vegas, nevada was established in 1990. habitat's purpose is to build low cost houses with the help of the homeowner families, which are transferred…

Housing & Shelter
6
Healthy Nevada
Health
7
Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc

The organizations mission is to alleviate food insecurity by providing supplemental food assistance to individuals and families in need. The organization receives monetary contributions used to purchase food and accepts donated food from…

Food & Nutrition
8
Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth

The organization provides wraparound services to meet homeless youths' immediate, emergency needs and help them transition to long-term self- sufficiency. the organization's support comes primarily from government grants and corporate…

Housing & Shelter
9
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
10
Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc

The Food Bank of Northern Nevada, Inc.s (Food Banks) mission is Feeding the hungry today and solving hunger for tomorrow through community partnership. The Food Banks vision is Healthy Food. Every Person, Every Day.

Food & Nutrition
11
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
12
Southern Nevada Senior Law Program

To provide quality legal assistance and advocacy services for residents 60 years and older facing challenges of aging.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands of Vegas Valley; the most unlike its peers is Merona Leadership Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Westcare: $36,000 · OtherWestcareNevada Women in Philanthropy: $30,000 · OtherNevada Women in PhilanthropySt Jude Children's Research: $22,000 · OtherSt Jude Children's ResearchThe Alexander Dawson School: $15,000 · OtherThe Alexander Dawson SchoolTemple Beth Sholom: $5,000 · Other+9 more: $20,100 · Other+9 moreBABY'S BOUNTY: $22,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S BOUNTYHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $6,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF VEG…HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2,600 · Human ServicesHELP OF SOUTHERN NEV…FOSTER KINSHIP: $2,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KINSHIPPROJECT 150: $2,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHREE SQUARE: $24,600 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARESUNSHINE NEVADA ORGANIZATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $3,000 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING: $2,500 · HealthMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Other$128,100Human Services$35,600Food & Nutrition$24,600Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$3,000Health$2,500Education$1,000

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 budgetTHREE SQUARE: $24,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBABY'S BOUNTY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE NEVADA ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT 150: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Marilyn Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds BABY'S BOUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE NEVADA ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER KINSHIP ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Marilyn Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERONA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Vegas Golden Knights Foundation IncNV17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Three Square · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Helen Tobman Martin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen Tobman Martin Family Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 25 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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