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Martha's Table Inc

Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$329k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$10MCommunity Improvement$2.3MEducation$1.8MPhilanthropy$695kHuman Services$390kEmployment$55k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $977,111 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,486,301 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,509,190 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $366k
  • $250k+2 grants · $612k
$139,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GWCF$329,154
TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIV$282,410
CENTER FOR NON-PROFIT ADV$139,750
LIFT INC$131,660
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$94,137
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR NON-PROFIT ADV: $140k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 6 repeat orgs$10.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$4.7M
$9.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TC
    TRINITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $912k · revenue +48%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $622k · revenue +13%
  • LI
    LIFT INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $457k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • MT
    MARTHA'S TABLE SO INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9.6M · revenue -100% · 50% of their budget
  • THE URBAN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $180k · revenue +4%
  • THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
3
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
4
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
7
Meridian International Center

Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…

International
8
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
9
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
10
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARTHA'S TABLE SO INC — $9,624,200 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE SO INCCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $621,648 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCTRINITY COLLEGE — $912,050 · EducationTRINITY COLL…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $787,363 · EducationAMERICAN UNI…CAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION — $1,088,122 · Community ImprovementYouth Invest Partners Inc — $858,000 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $794,554 · PhilanthropyLIFT INC — $456,660 · EmploymentTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $55,263 · EmploymentTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $180,000 · Social ScienceCENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT — $139,750 · Human Services
Food & Nutrition$10,245,848Education$1,699,413Community Improvement$1,088,122Other$858,000Philanthropy$794,554Employment$511,923Social Science$180,000Human Services$139,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARTHA'S TABLE SO INC — $9,624,200 over 1y, 50% of budgetCAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION — $1,088,122 over 2y, 33% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $912,050 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYouth Invest Partners Inc — $858,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $794,554 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $787,363 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $621,648 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIFT INC — $456,660 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $180,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $55,263 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark FoundationMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Greater Washington Community 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 Martha's Table 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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