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Paul T Martin Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$86kArts & Culture$45kHealth$30kHuman Services$14kEducation$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$314k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION$14,900
Individual grant recipient$8,953
BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH$2,500
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH$2,000
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL$1,000
MERCY HEALTH CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS: $2k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH: $3k → 13%CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $17k → 27%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $6k → 15%ALZHEIMERS DIEASE RESEARCH: $2k → 8%TUNNEL TO TOWERS: $2k → 11%ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH: $2k → 13%CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $4k → 15%ALZHEIMERS DIEASE RESEARCH: $2k → 8%ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH: $2k → 13%MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS: $11k → 27%ALZHEIMERS DIEASE RESEARCH: $1k → 8%MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS: $9k → 27%MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS: $9k → 27%CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $7k → 27%MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS: $6k → 27%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 27%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 27%CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 27%CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 27%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 27%MISCELLANEOUS DONATIONS: $2k → 27%MISCELLEOUS DONATIONS: $1k → 27%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 27%OCONEE HILLS CEMETARY: $1k → 27%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 27%CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 27%BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $50k → 27%BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $14k → 27%BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 27%BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $7k → 27%BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 27%BEECHHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 27%MERCY HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 27%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $2k → 27%MERCY HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 27%PIEDMONT ATHENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 27%PIEDMONT ATHENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 27%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 27%MERCY HEALTH CENTER: $1k → 27%PIEDMONT ATHENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 27%MERCY HEALTH CENTER: $1k → 27%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 27%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $1k → 27%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $500 → 27%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$222k · 11 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -76% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$222k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-76%

Still filing today

36%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • TC
    THE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +46%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -76%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEECH HAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH: $86,050 · OtherBEECH HAVEN BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $36,153 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY: $14,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $9,700 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH: $6,800 · Other+5 more: $11,853 · Other+5 moreTHE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $44,729 · Arts & CultureTHE CLASSIC CENTER CUL…MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC: $6,000 · HealthST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,050 · Education
Other$164,556Arts & Culture$44,729Health$14,500Education$4,050

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $44,729 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 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 THE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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