Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $595k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2025
- 92
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 92
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 98 | $594k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 92 | $596k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $486k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $471k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $399k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $370k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $350k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $328k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northampton County Area Community College Foundation | $210,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Nazareth Area Food Bank Inc | $121,500 | 9 | 12% |
| Guitars in the Classroom | $90,000 | 9 | 4% |
| New Bethany Inc | $88,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Hcsc - Blood Center | $87,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wildlands Conservancy Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
| State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc | $82,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Allentown Art Museum | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Butz Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation
- How much does Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation give?
- Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $594,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 92 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Education (15%), Health (6%).
- Who are Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northampton County Area Community College Foundation ($210k), Nazareth Area Food Bank Inc ($122k), Guitars in the Classroom ($90k).
- Does Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Ppl Foundation.
- Where is Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation based?
- Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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