· Private foundation
Martin Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Martin Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Central Georgia Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Martin Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $170k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Central Georgia - FBO Middle GA Regional Library | $30,000 |
| Awakening Fires Ministry Inc | $25,000 |
| Macon Volunteer Clinic | $25,000 |
| Historic Macon Foundation | $10,000 |
| Crisis Line and Safe House of Central GA | $10,000 |
| Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia | $9,000 |
| Rebuilding Macon | $9,000 |
| Methodist Home for Children | $9,000 |
| Little Carnegie of the South | $7,500 |
| Sugarloaf Community Association | $7,000 |
| 100 Black Men Macon | $5,000 |
| Woodfield Academy | $5,000 |
| The Hay House | $5,000 |
| The Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network | $4,250 |
| Gateway Center | $4,250 |
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, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- FCFamily Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $41k · revenue +34%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue +160%
- DUDEPAUL USA INC4× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- CCCAMPUS CLUBS INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -26%
- SRS Riverkeeperone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MSMACON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2017 · $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.
To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.
Serving the middle Georgia area with low-income housing solutions through the Fuller Center for Housings Save a House/Make a Home and Greater Blessings programs.
To enable all people with disabilities to attain and have access to all opportunities in life.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Serving our neighbors in need by providing food and nurturing hope.
To preserve whatever relates to the natural, industrial, civil, military, political, social, educational, or religious history of macon county
Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) inspires and equips communities of faith to organize, implement practical climate solutions, and advocate across Georgia on issues of climate change, environmental justice, and community resilience.
Richmont graduate university provides graduate education, integrating professional counseling, applied psychology, and practical theology for christ-centered transformation
The Institute is the leading provider of timely and informative educational opportunities for its members and the residents they serve, state and local policy makers, as well as professionals in the field of aging and the community at large
The organization's mission is to build lives, families and communities one career at a time by helping people develop their god-given gifts through education, work and career development services. goodwill strives to end poverty one new…
The credit union is a cooperative organized to provide members thrift savings and borrowings.
Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Central Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gateway Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% 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 20% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 67 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS LINE & SAFE HOUSE OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds MACON VOLUNTEER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WOODFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING MACON INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORS PROJECT OF BIBB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORNING MUSIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MACON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL GEORGIA SENIOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Recovery Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY UNDER THE HEALER ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
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: Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · John S and James L Knight Foundation · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · WL Amos Sr Foundation Inc co William L Amos III · Perkins-Ponder Foundation · The Ra Bowen Trust · Navicent Health Foundation Inc · Robins Financial Credit Union · Phil J & Alice S Sheridan Foundation Inc
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 Inc 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.
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% 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.