· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $261k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LV | $35,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC MERCHANTS | $20,000 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $17,500 |
| NAZARETH AREA FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ARTS QUEST | $12,500 |
| NEW BETHANY MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC | $12,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA FOLKSONG SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS LV | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
136 repeat relationships: 88 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +59%
- NANAZARETH AREA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +68%
- GIGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -39%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF LEHIGH VALLEYone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
To create a musical community where high quality instruction and performance opportunities are available to all.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The mission of winchester community music school is to provide outstanding and diverse musical education and performance, accessible to all, in winchester, neighboring communities, and beyond.
To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
The louisville academy of music welcomes everyone to join our musical community. lam nurtures lifelong learners, not solely as musicians but also as creative, inspired people. equity in music education is a force to realize potential,…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
How this is measured
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 191 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds HCSC - BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GODFREY DANIELS ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF NAZARETH & VICINITY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VNA OF ST LUKE'S - HOME HEALTHHOSPICE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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