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Martin Architecture and Design Workshop Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.7MEducation$687kInternational$33kHuman Services$10kScience & Tech$10kYouth Development$5kReligion$5kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$100,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$100,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$35,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$20,000
PETERSON AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$10,000
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $25k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $30k → 17%PRATT INSTITUTE: $50k → 20%PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF FAI: $25k → 17%PRATT INSTITUTE: $25k → 20%FRIENDS OF FAI: $23k → 17%EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE: $45k → 20%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $1.0M → 14%EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE: $13k → 20%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $509k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $252k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $240k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $170k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $156k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $134k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $105k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $101k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $26k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $25k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $25k → 14%The UCLA Foundation: $50k → 14%MARCIANO ART FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%OTIS COLLEGE: $50k → 14%ART CENTER: $116k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESGIN: $115k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESGIN: $99k → 14%ART CENTER: $51k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $37k → 14%ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $25k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $20k → 14%USC UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $89k → 14%ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $11k → 14%IMG FASHION: $110k → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 14%LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $27k → 14%PETERSON AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $10k → 14%PETERSON AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $10k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 18 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$4.3M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+55%

Still filing today

50%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +47%
  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    4× · 2020–2025 · $306k · revenue +30%
  • PI
    PRATT INSTITUTE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $75k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • OC
    OTIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • MF
    MY FRIENDS PLACE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
4
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
Laguna College of Art & Design

Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…

Education
7
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
10
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
11
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
12
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Center College of Design; the most unlike its peers is Pratt Institute. 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

14 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. 14 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $3,379,054 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES+3 more: $104,422 · Arts & CultureART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $306,297 · EducationART CENTER COLL…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $139,198 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF S…PRATT INSTITUTE: $75,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTESOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $50,000 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFO…UCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE ART CENTER: $172,153 · OtherTHE ART CENT…Individual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual g…EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE: $57,500 · OtherEUROPEAN CUL…OTIS COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherOTIS COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $48,000 · OtherIndividual g…+16 more: $94,220 · Other+16 moreAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $33,000 · InternationalPebble Beach Company Foundation: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$3,483,476Education$630,495Other$531,873International$33,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $3,379,054 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN: $306,297 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $139,198 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $62,307 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY: $22,115 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds THE ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ahmanson FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Martin Architecture and Design Workshop Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin Architecture and Design Workshop Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Martin Architecture and Design Workshop Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Martin Architecture and Design Workshop Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 33 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-PF 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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