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J Landis and Sharon Martin Family 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$900,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$7.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$2.4M20%
FY202412$823k0%
FY202313$866k31%
FY20227$159k14%
FY202110$311k10%
FY202015$904k27%
FY201916$4.3M13%
FY201819$654kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$4.3MEducation$2.9MArts & Culture$2.8MHealth$360kEnvironment$3kHuman Services$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
CT
CA
CO
DE
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern University: $4,268,935 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSt Elizabeth's School: $900,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGraland Country Day School: $852,204 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDesert Caballeros Western Museum: $750,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $725,667 over 4y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Down Syndrome Foundation: $326,772 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetDenver Academy Inc: $307,105 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDenison University: $154,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRino Gives Back: $111,368 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $101,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Film Society: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRino Art District: $55,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCentral City Opera House Association: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSaint Joseph Hospital Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University: $2,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thresholds: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Academy: $1,724 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPaddington Station Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Garage: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Episcopal School Inc: $175 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Taft School Corporation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Caulkins Family Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Xcel Energy 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.

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How do I get to J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation 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.

About J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation

How much does J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation give?
J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $2,421,858 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (41%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (27%).
Who are J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($4.3M), St Elizabeth's School ($900k), Graland Country Day School ($852k).
Does J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J Landis and Sharon Martin Family 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 J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation based?
J Landis and Sharon Martin Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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