· Private foundation
Martens Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $18,700 |
| JAE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CAMP PERKINS LUTHERAN MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO FNDN INC | $1,400 |
| XROSSWAY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FNDN | $500 |
| VISIONS CHARITIES INC | $278 |
| RARE K I C K S INC | $250 |
| TWIN FALLS AMERICAN LEGION | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJae Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +80%
- BSBoise State University Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +81%
- IHIdaho Humane Society Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- CTCLOVER TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $7k
- TFTWIN FALLS COUNTY 4-H FFA MKT SALEone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The mission of the Foundation is to stimulate voluntary private support from alumni, parents, friends, corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of the University and its students.
The Foundation, an Internal Revenue Code ("Code") Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, supports the mission of the College through the development and creation of resources that will improve and (Continued on Schedule O)(Continued…
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
The College of Idaho, a private, residential liberal arts college, prepares students to lead productive and fulfilling lives. We are committed to an innovative, individualized curriculum in liberal arts and professional studies, to…
To support Bozeman Health Services by promoting community participation in and financial support of activities to improve community health and quality of life.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
To Promote Premier Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success of Idaho FFA Members and Agricultural Education Students by Providing Strategic Financial Resources for the Idaho FFA Association
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
IHDE exists to create and maintain a collaborative statewide effort to improve the coordination and quality of healthcare through the use of a health information exchange and health information technology.
The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 Jae Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Visions Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho 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: Samuel R Young Foundation · Network for Good · 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 Martens Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martens Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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