· Private foundation
Martell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC | $25,000 |
| ST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS | $10,500 |
| OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| A ROSIE PLACE | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE ROADIE CLINIC INC | $3,500 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC | $1,250 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY | $750 |
| LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC | $500 |
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 (FY23–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +10% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CCCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +34%
- SPST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $60k
- OHO'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - FITZGERALD INSTITUTE FOR REAL ESTATEone grant, 2024 · $8k
- HNHOLY NAME CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL A CHESTERTON ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES (AKA CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY)one grant, 2023 · $500
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 mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
It is the mission of, love from louie, to remove dogs that are suffering physically and emotionally inside the shelter system and provide them with complete medical care and a nurturing home environment to heal and rehabilitate before…
The oregon humane society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with…
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Maintain and care for incoming animals.
To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultivate Culinary School and Catering Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds O'HANA HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROADIE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 1141106 CHET WAGGONER LL ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM ↗
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: Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Martell Family Foundation 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.
- K9S for Warriors 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.