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Martin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.2MYouth Development$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.2MHuman Services$509kEducation$260kInternational$250kCommunity Improvement$180kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVER CROSSING YMCA$750,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$250,000
FEEDING AMERICA$250,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$100,000
FREIRE FOUNDATION$30,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$25,000
FULFILL FOOD BANK$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$25,000
WEST OHIO FOOD BANK$25,000
CLIMATE ACTION PATHWAYS FOR SCHOOLS$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CONTINUING THE MISSION: $5k → 10%SDG IMPACT FUND: $250k → 10%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $10k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $10k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $10k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $8k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $8k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $8k → 13%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $8k → 13%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $175k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $125k → 6%CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 6%FULFILL FOOD BANK: $25k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
NC
GA
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.0M · 20 repeat orgs$979k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +80% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$9.0M
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+80%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • Feeding America
    2× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    7× · 2017–2025 · $526k · revenue +109%
  • RC
    RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $400k · revenue +421%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HISPANIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $36k
  • TM
    THE MISSION CONTINUES
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -72%
  • HC
    HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -76%
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.

1
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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5
Share Food Program

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Chester County Food Bank

We mobilize and educate our community to ensure equitable access to nutritious and familiar food. we do this by raising, and soliciting funds for the acquisition, storage, growing, collection and distribution of food to low income citizens…

Food & Nutrition
9
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding San Diego

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 & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/a Fulfill; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $4,002,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $526,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentYMCA OF BUCKS COUNTY: $1,820,000 · OtherYMCA OF BUCKS COUNTYRIVER CROSSING YMCA: $750,000 · OtherRIVER CROSSING YMCAIndividual grant recipient: $180,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+19 more: $369,500 · Other+19 moreFeeding America: $1,250,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaWest Ohio Food Bank: $85,000 · Food & NutritionWest Ohio Food …LUNCH BREAK INC: $70,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $8,000 · Food & NutritionRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $400,000 · Human ServicesSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREIRE FOUNDATION: $275,000 · EducationCLIMATE ACTION PATHWAYS FOR SCHOOLS: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureJUSTICE OUTSIDE: $27,000 · PhilanthropySONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$4,543,000Other$3,119,500Food & Nutrition$1,413,000Human Services$742,000Education$290,000Arts & Culture$57,000Philanthropy$37,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $4,002,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetFeeding America: $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $526,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $400,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFREIRE FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWest Ohio Food Bank: $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLUNCH BREAK INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC: $62,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY HOUSING GROUP INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE: $27,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SANDY HOOK FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS: $12,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMATE ACTION PATHWAYS FOR SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetParker Family Health Center Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRON LIVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY SEA GRANT CONSORTIUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVALOR CLINIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONTINUING THE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Valtim Family Foundat…Easley Char Irr Tua 5…Centra Health IncGreater Lynchburg Com…Foster FoundationManasquan Bank Charit…New Jersey Natural Ga…Investors Foundation …Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
Valtim Family Foundation IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Lunch Break Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Martin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Martin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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