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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
- $250k+1 grant · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC | $675,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY | $65,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ALVERNO COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE THEATER BUG INC | $35,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC | $20,000 |
| AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE | $18,000 |
| DESTINATIONHOME | $17,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $15,000 |
| MARION MEDICAL MISSION | $15,000 |
| NEXT ACT THEATER | $15,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| VEGGIELUTION COMMUNITY FARM | $15,000 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 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; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +92%
ALVERNO COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +2%- CCCOE COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +6%
Funded once
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%- BABay Area Womens Sports Initiativegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +117%
- DHDESTINATION HOMESone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Map is a local, statewide, and national resource for communities looking to develop and implement proven, innovative, community-centered strategies that address gender-based violence. using map's "we are all connected" (waac) prevention…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Performing Arts Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Loveland Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Theater Bug Inc ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARION MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM WOMEN'S COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds VEGGIELUTION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ENPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds DANCEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM LOVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative ↗
- Who funds Lava Mae ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM'S FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer 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 Martin Family Foundation 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.
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
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.
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