How much does Martin Family Foundation give?

Martin Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,166,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Martin Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Education (13%), Philanthropy (9%).

Who are Martin Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($1.2M), United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($305k), Alverno College ($255k).

Does Martin Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Martin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Martin Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.

Where is Martin Family Foundation based?

Martin Family Foundation is based in CA.

Martin Family Foundation

Martin Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$675k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MEducation$509kPhilanthropy$330kInternational$237kHousing & Shelter$234kHuman Services$154kHealth$110kCivil Rights$69kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $49k
$10k–50k18 grants · $277k
$50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$250k+1 grant · $675k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$10.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC	$675,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY	$65,000
ALVERNO COLLEGE	$50,000
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM	$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
MARION MEDICAL MISSION	$15,000
CATHEDRAL CENTER	$15,000
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE	$15,000
VEGGIELUTION COMMUNITY FARM	$15,000
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF	$15,000
NEXT ACT THEATER	$15,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 41 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+61%

Still filing today

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +92%
ALVERNO COLLEGE
6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +2%
CC
COE COLLEGE
5× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +6%

Funded once

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
BA
Bay Area Womens Sports Initiativegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +117%
DH
DESTINATION HOMES
one grant, 2020 · $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.

The Trustees of the Smith College

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…

Education

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

Albright College

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

Education

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Men As Peacemakers

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…

Civil Rights

Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Golden Gate University

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…

Education

Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education

Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

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.

Human Services

Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Performing Arts Fund Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 63 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/45

Grantees still filing

31/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,600,600Other$969,000Education$489,000Philanthropy$327,000International$154,000Human Services$151,500Religion$135,000

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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