How much does Martin Foundation Inc give?

Martin Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Martin Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (75%), Religion (6%), Education (4%).

Who are Martin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: First Christian Church ($52k), Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc ($41k), The University of Georgia Foundation ($36k).

Does Martin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Martin Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Martin Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Griffith Family Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Peyton Anderson Foundation.

Where is Martin Foundation Inc based?

Martin Foundation Inc is based in GA.

Martin Foundation Inc

Martin Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Martin Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$30k

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.7MReligion$208kEducation$151kHealth$121kArts & Culture$75kHousing & Shelter$69kHuman Services$61kEnvironment$53kOther$0

02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k13 grants · $70k
$10k–50k5 grants · $100k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Community Foundation of Central Georgia - FBO Middle GA Regional Library	$30,000
Macon Volunteer Clinic	$25,000
Awakening Fires Ministry Inc	$25,000
Crisis Line and Safe House of Central GA	$10,000
Historic Macon Foundation	$10,000
Rebuilding Macon	$9,000
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia	$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
The Hay House	$5,000
Woodfield Academy	$5,000
The Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network	$4,250
Gateway Center	$4,250

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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$599k · 36 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$599k

$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

-27%

Still filing today

56%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureReligionOther

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

FC
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $41k · revenue +34%
TU
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue +160%
DU
DEPAUL USA INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +198%

Funded once

CC
CAMPUS CLUBS INC
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -26%
CF
Community Foundation of Central Georgia - FBO Macon Concert Association
one grant, 2022 · $10k
SR
S Riverkeeper
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.

Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.

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The Fuller Center for Housing of Macon Georgia Inc

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.

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Middle Georgia Center for Independent Living Inc

To enable all people with disabilities to attain and have access to all opportunities in life.

Civil Rights

The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement

Macon County Care Network

Serving our neighbors in need by providing food and nurturing hope.

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Macon County Historical Society

To preserve whatever relates to the natural, industrial, civil, military, political, social, educational, or religious history of macon county

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Georgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc

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.

Environment

Richmont Graduate University

Richmont graduate university provides graduate education, integrating professional counseling, applied psychology, and practical theology for christ-centered transformation

Education

Georgia Institute on Aging Inc

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

Health

Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia Inc

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…

Employment

Credit Union of Georgia

The credit union is a cooperative organized to provide members thrift savings and borrowings.

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Justice Center of Atlanta Inc

Provides mediation services and mediation training for all manner of disputes, private and public, without the need for formal audication through the court system.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Central Georgia Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 67 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)

33/34

Grantees still filing

16/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,684,149Other$612,665Education$91,450Health$63,000Human Services$46,200Housing & Shelter$36,000Crime & Legal$32,930

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.

Griffith Family Foundation IncGA36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home