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· Public charity
MARTHA'S KITCHEN
Feeding the hungry with dignity; no questions asked.
$3.5M
Granted FY2025
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath 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
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
catholic churchmethodist churchpajaro valleyhousedhousingmerced visionhomeless needy
2024
salinasfindneededclientshousingtrainingrehabilitate
2025
jamboree deliversdelivers affordablehousing transformtransform liveslives strengthenfindneeded
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2025
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $3,531,749.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$11M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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 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.
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Opport-Unity
We provide low income housing
Human Services
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Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project
Our mission is to provide opportunity and a voice for low income and homeless people while taking action for economic, social & racial justice
Human Services
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Faithful Servants Ministry
Housing the homeless
Human Services
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Welcome Home Housing Inc
Welcome Home Housing is a non-profit organization in Sacramento California that provides affordable housing and services to individuals with mental illness.
Human Services
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Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
To minister the love of Jesus Christ to the Least, the Last, and the Lost of our Community through the provision of assistance in the areas of guidance, counseling, education, job training, shelter, food, clothing, health care and…
Housing & Shelter
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Oakland Catholic Worker
The Organization offers transitional housing to Latin American immigrants. Its ministry is based on the practice of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised.
Human Services
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The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
Housing & Shelter
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Home for Homeless Women
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Housing Matters
Provide emergency and transitional services to homeless individuals in the county of santa cruz.
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Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
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Vision for Life
To impact community housing
Housing & Shelter
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House of Hope
Assisting and housing females in recovery
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart Community Service and the most unlike its peers is The Fellowship. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%2/58
the rest of the field
9%
1,112/12,149
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.
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.
Second Harvest of Silicon ValleyCA32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sunlight Giving · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Family Giving Tree · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Star One Credit Union
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.
04Through Plinth
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Martha's Kitchen?
Find your warmest path to Martha's Kitchen 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines