· Private foundation
Martha Mertz 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $105,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $66,000 |
| WOMEN IN NEED INC | $52,000 |
| HOMEWARD NYC | $43,000 |
| GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT | $42,000 |
| FORESTDALE INC | $41,000 |
| RESTORE INC | $34,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NYC | $19,000 |
| WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $657k · revenue +5%- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $390k · revenue +90%
WOMEN IN NEED INC6× · 2020–2025 · $253k · revenue +66%
Funded once
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.
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
To provide the basic human services necessary for families and individuals to obtain self-proficiency, through dignity in their struggle to participate as the functioning and valuable citizens they inherently are.
Pibly's mission embraces the belief that the needs of its consumers can be met and their goals can be achieved. pibly strives to expand opportunities for people living with mental health challenges by delivering person centered services…
Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
We offer affordable housing and support programs for homeless and vulnerable new yorkers.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To make a life-altering difference with children, youth and families who are overcoming some of life's most difficult challenges and obstacles, by helping to build a strong foundation for life: a safe, loving, permanent family and the…
163rd street improvement council runs 5 housing programs that addresses housing and homelessness. headquarters has begun a community garden, and a community health fair engaging all the programs and partners.
Catholic charities neighborhood services, inc. (ccns) is a not-for-profit corporation that provides a variety of social services throughout the boroughs of brooklyn and queens. ccns currently offers 160-plus programs and services for…
Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…
diaspora community services is a social support service agency that empowers low income families and individuals to maximize their abilities to overcome obstacles to their well-being and self-sufficiency.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Shepherd Services and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Help Inc. 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 12 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 GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END RESIDENCES HDFC INC DBA HOMEWARD NYC ↗
- Who funds FORESTDALE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELP INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME ↗
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: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Dammann Fund Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · American Express Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Martha Mertz Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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