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Nicholas Martini Foundation at a glance

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Nicholas Martini Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$814k
Granted FY2024still arriving
87
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.8MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$461kArts & Culture$207kRecreation & Sports$146kFood & Nutrition$136kPhilanthropy$135kHuman Services$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRI-COUNTRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$150,000
PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
PASSAIC OPTIMIST CLUB$30,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$27,000
JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY$26,300
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KIP'S BAY$26,120
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH$25,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$25,000
ALSAC$23,000
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SYSTEM$20,000
MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC OF PASSAIC$20,000
ST CATHERINE'S ACADEMY$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 11%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $5k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $3k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $3k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 17%ITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE: $1k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 17%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $13k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $3k → 17%SEARCH & CARE INC: $695 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 17%NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN - NOIAW: $700 → 17%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

AK
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 80 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
64

Total granted

$3.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+18%

Still filing today

43%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $347k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +140%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF PASSAIC INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HM
    HACKENSACK MERIDIAN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $453k
  • MH
    MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +37%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is Joseph M Sanzari Family 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

65 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. 65 of the 169 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH'S HEALTH INC: $507,500 · OtherST JOSEPH'S HEALTH INCHACKENSACK MERIDIAN MEDICAL CENTER: $452,500 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN MEDICAL CENTERJOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY: $417,425 · OtherJOHN CABOT UNIVERSITYMERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherMERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONHACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL: $268,500 · OtherHACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL+140 more: $2,045,462 · Other+140 moreTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $220,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationVILLANOVA …FELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationFELICIAN U…+5 more: $10,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC: $347,200 · Youth DevelopmentKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $23,200 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $74,575 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $52,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $62,100 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND: $54,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $9,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $25,155 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $18,625 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,200 · Arts & CultureTHE DOE FUND INC: $54,682 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,991,387Education$480,500Youth Development$385,400Food & Nutrition$131,575Recreation & Sports$126,100Arts & Culture$60,480Housing & Shelter$54,682

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC: $347,200 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $220,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF PASSAIC INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $74,575 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $62,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $54,682 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $54,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFELICIAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC: $25,155 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $23,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $20,711 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $18,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetITALIAN WELFARE LEAGUE INC: $12,405 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOYS FOR TOTS INC: $9,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetBLANTON-PEALE INSTITUTE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJosephine's Place Inc: $7,627 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN OF BELLEVUE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,109 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHMH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD OF SE MORRIS COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Peters Haven Corporation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR CHILDREN RESEARCH FOUND: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $2,580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH M SANZARI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF PASSAIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds FELICIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS CITIZENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…Columbia Bank Foundat…Community Foundation …Jewish Communal FundInvestors Foundation …The New York Communit…Ej Grassmann TrustThe McJ Amelior Found…Adp FoundationPseg Foundation IncMother Cabrini Health…Bristol-Myers Squibb …
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Ej Grassmann Trust · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Adp Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb 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 Nicholas Martini Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nicholas Martini Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 169 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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