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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $977,111, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,486,301 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,509,190 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven by three…

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2
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
3
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
4
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
5
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
6
Capital University

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

Education
7
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
8
Ingenuity Prep

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

Education
9
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
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

Clark Charitable Foun…Greater Washington Co…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Martha's Table Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha's Table Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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