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Martin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF BUCKS COUNTY | $700,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FREIRE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HERITAGE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +80% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND6× · 2017–2023 · $426k · revenue +109%- RCRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $400k · revenue +421%
- FFFREIRE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +52%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +40%- THTHE HISPANIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $36k
- TMTHE MISSION CONTINUESone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -68%
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, share food program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Our mission is to connect and grow the region's food agriculture community from our wholesale market in the heart of san francisco. our vision is for all communities in the san francisco bay area to have reliable access to abundant fresh…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Originating in mercer county in 2020 with the mission of tackling both food insecurity and food waste, share my meals has since expanded across the state of new jersey. more than 994,000 new jersey residents are food-secure while over 1.9…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance and the most unlike its peers is The Sandy Hook Foundation Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 37 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 SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SDG IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FREIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds West Ohio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE OUTSIDE ↗
- Who funds THE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPERVIRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds Parker Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONTINUING THE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds IRON LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SEA GRANT CONSORTIUM INC ↗
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: 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
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Inc — 35% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% 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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