How much did JAMES & SUSAN MARTIN CHARITABLE TR grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of JAMES & SUSAN MARTIN CHARITABLE TR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

churchepiscopal

2020

catholic

2021

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2022

—

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$26k

Total assets

Largest grants

CNEWA$350
TEXAS BAR FOUNDATION$300
HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD$250
CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION$200
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO$150
SALVATION ARMY$150
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$150
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$150
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART$115
WITTE MUSEUM$100
MEALS ON WHEELS$100
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD$100
KLRN$100
FSEEE$100
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$100

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $625) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$50k · 34 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$50k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+24%

Still filing today

26%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

SA
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART
8× · 2017–2024 · $830 · revenue +50%
WM
WITTE MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $720 · revenue +21%
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS
6× · 2019–2024 · $625 · revenue +32%

Funded once

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +24%
SF
SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR
one grant, 2017 · $500
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +213%

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.

The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals

TexArts Association for Visual &

TexARTS is an arts education and performance destination that builds character, professionalism, and careers. Its mission is to cultivate a thriving arts community by exposing all people to the visual and performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Explore, discover, engage: we explore the critically important world of plants, collaborate to discover the role they play in our cultural and natural environments, and engage people to conserve nature and improve the human experience.

Science & Tech

Kimbell Art Foundation

Arts & Culture

Museum of South Texas History

To preserve and present the borderland heritage of south texas and northeastern mexico.

Arts & Culture

Texas Wesleyan University

Founded in 1890 in fort worth, texas wesleyan university is a united methodist institution with a tradition in the liberal arts and sciences... (continued on sch. o)

Education

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Southern Methodist University

The Primary mission of the university is education through research and teaching by creating and imparting knowledge that will shape citizens who contribute to their communities and lead professions in a global society.

Education

The Fort Worth Zoological Association

The fort worth zoo is dedicated to the conservation of wildlife. through entertainment and education programs, the fort worth zoo attracts, motivates, inspires, and engages the public in order to promote wildlife conservation locally,…

Animals

Texas Lutheran University

As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see form 990, part iii, line 1 for continuation of mission…

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The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Witte Museum and the most unlike its peers is Washington and Lee University. 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 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

10%

4,111/39,754

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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

15/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$50,259Arts & Culture$2,451Education$1,000Human Services$625Environment$600Animals$500International$345

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.

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.

The Brown Foundation IncTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harris K & Lois G Oppenheimer Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation JAMES & SUSAN MARTIN CHARITABLE TR 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEALS ON WHEELS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 751940572 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MEALS ON WHEELS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to James & Susan Martin Charitable Tr through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JAMES & SUSAN MARTIN CHARITABLE TR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James & Susan Martin Charitable Tr?

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JAMES & SUSAN MARTIN CHARITABLE TR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to James & Susan Martin Charitable Tr?

More from the funding graph