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R Brad Martin Family 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$1.7MEducation$1.6MReligion$1.1MPhilanthropy$850kEmployment$632kHuman Services$411kRecreation & Sports$252kInternational$246kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $423k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION$500,000
MAYO CLINIC$250,000
HOPEWORKS$250,000
PALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$210,000
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION$184,685
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$119,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$105,000
FIRST CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$100,000
CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$62,500
Individual grant recipient$55,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$55,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS$50,000
LYNN UNIVERSITY$50,000
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER$50,000
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 (FY21–25, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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%LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL: $3k → 14%THE REFUGE RANCH: $100k → 20%DELIVERING GOOD INC: $5k → 17%THE REFUGE RANCH: $100k → 20%ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $3k → 21%THE CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%TEEN CHALLENGE OF MEMPHIS: $2k → 17%FORGOTTEN CHILD FUND: $5k → 12%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $13k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $13k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $13k → 17%YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $13k → 17%MEMPHIS ROX: $25k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $35k → 17%ASHA'S REFUGE: $20k → 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

VT
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
NM
AR
TN
NC
OK
MS
AL
GA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 72 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
76

Total granted

$6.0M
$686k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+5%

Still filing today

71%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $818k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $641k · revenue +72%
  • HW
    HOPE WORKS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $607k · revenue +7%
  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $251k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOU MATTER MINISTRY - A MWC DIVISION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • KD
    KEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue +193%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $38k
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
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Journey Health Foundation

Convene passionate, collaborative partners to help build bold, data-driven systems and solutions that promote healthy communities for all

Human Services
4
Impacthealth-Tn

To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.

Human Services
5
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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6
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
8
Leadership Tennessee Inc

Leadership tennessee fosters collaborative, non-partisan dialogue on issues of state importance, by connecting and deploying a network of diverse leaders and engaged citizens.

Public Benefit
9
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
12
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mr October Foundation for Kids. 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

115 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. 115 of the 171 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
66/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $575,000 · OtherFIRST CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHMAYO CLINIC: $500,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICPALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $240,000 · OtherPALM CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHYOU MATTER MINISTRY - A MWC DIVISION: $100,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $105,000 · OtherTHE BAOBAB HOME: $125,000 · Other+94 more: $1,331,472 · Other+94 moreUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $640,735 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS F…MARYVILLE COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationMARYVILLE COLLEGEWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE: $165,000 · EducationWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILL…THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $163,700 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOLCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN S…HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY+8 more: $171,668 · Education+8 moreHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $305,500 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY…CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $250,750 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH …HELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $196,500 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $65,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…TWIN CITIES RECOVERY PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Health+15 more: $119,500 · Health+15 moreTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOU…The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $165,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $95,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…KEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INC: $47,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $34,900 · PhilanthropyHOPE WORKS INC: $607,250 · EmploymentHOPE WORK…LUCY J'S BAKERY INC: $25,000 · EmploymentThe Refuge Ranch Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesAshas Refuge: $55,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $50,000 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY MEMPHIS: $25,000 · Human Services+9 more: $46,750 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHunter Museum of American Art: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDixon Gallery and Gardens: $26,500 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $12,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDowntown Winston-Salem Community Cinema: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $14,360 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,976,472Education$1,576,103Health$977,250Philanthropy$892,400Employment$632,250Human Services$376,750Arts & Culture$267,860

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $640,735 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE WORKS INC: $607,250 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $305,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $250,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Refuge Ranch Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION: $196,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE: $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $165,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $163,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAOBAB HOME: $125,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAshas Refuge: $55,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFresh Ground Leapfrog Cafe Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $48,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INC: $47,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetMr October Foundation for Kids: $47,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION: $43,334 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES RECOVERY PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBARTOW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC: $35,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDixon Gallery and Gardens: $26,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-SOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLUCY J'S BAKERY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING BRANCHES OF CHRIST INC: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONE FAMILY MEMPHIS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictory Ranch: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER: $19,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FOR A SAFER TENNESSEE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL CARE TRUST: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …Chattanooga Christian…Hamico IncRobert L & Kathrina H…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Haslam Family Foundat…Tennessee Health Foun…East Tennessee Founda…Southern Health Plan …Robert F Stone Founda…McKenzie Foundation D…
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN47.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Southern Health Plan Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Riverside Community Care Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Golf Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to R Brad Martin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 171 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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