Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Martin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Martin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.2M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $981k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $875k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $762k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Club Foundation | $4,002,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Feeding America | $1,250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $526,000 | 7 | 0% |
| River Crossing Young Men's Christian Association | $400,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Freire Foundation | $275,000 | 9 | 4% |
| West Ohio Food Bank | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lunch Break Inc | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Park View Community Mission Inc | $62,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bucks County Housing Group Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Martin Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Valtim Family Foundation Inc · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Centra Health Inc · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Foster Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Martin Foundation
- How much does Martin Foundation give?
- Martin Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $1,490,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Martin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (49%), Youth Development (21%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Martin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sierra Club Foundation ($4.0M), Feeding America ($1.3M), The Trust for Public Land ($526k).
- Does Martin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Martin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Valtim Family Foundation Inc, Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715, Centra Health Inc.
- Where is Martin Foundation based?
- Martin Foundation is based in PA.
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