· Private foundation
Martin Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART | $60,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA BALLET | $30,000 |
| CAMP DISCOVERY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $15,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ORIGINAL DESIGN | $10,000 |
| USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2025 · $346k · revenue +19%
- MHMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +10%
- SCSouth Carolina Ballet2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- THTHE HOOF AND PAW BENEVOLENT SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- TETHE ELM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.
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.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
In educating the whole child, eton school inspires creative, confident thinkers who have an enduring passion for learning and are poised to contribute to the world.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To find, train, and educate students who show excellence in their artistic potential for ballet.
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Ballet ↗
- Who funds ORIGINAL DESIGN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ELM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational 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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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