· Private foundation
Marten Charitable Foundation Corporation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Marten Charitable Foundation Corporation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Marten Charitable Foundation Corporation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $277k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP SIMON BRUTE SEMINARY | $100,000 |
| OUR LADY OF FATIMA RETREAT HOUSE | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| SMILE | $25,000 |
| ORDER OF MALTA | $1,500 |
| CHRIST THE KING | $1,300 |
| SACRED HEART MONASTERY | $1,050 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY | $1,000 |
| BOY'S TOWN | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL | $500 |
| ST LAWRENCE SEMINARY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OLOur Lady of Fatima Retreat House Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +27%
- SOSEEDS OF HOPE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +52%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MPMiracle Place Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +31%
- SBST BENEDICTS ABBEYone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
Marys house mission is to provide transitional living environment which provides residential care, individual and group counceling, assessment
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Recovery home
With a 150+ year history, Saint Joe's is a place where people with developmental disabilities and complex support needs find connection, dignity and joy. Our community is built on compassion and possibility where every person is seen,…
Magnificat Houses, Inc. offers a welcoming community where those needing housing, food and mental health programs can grow in stability, productivity and independence.
The home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in 1839 & serves the elderly in 31 countries. the st. augustine home, which provides nursing & residential care for (see…
Holy Cross College is a Catholic, residential liberal arts college located in Notre Dame, Indiana and is part of a tri campus community that includes the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College. The College was founded in 1966 by…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Inc ↗
- Who funds Progress House ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S INDEPENDENT LIVING EXTENSION ↗
- Who funds Miracle Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marten Charitable Foundation Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marten Charitable Foundation Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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