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Steve Martin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $50,000 |
| UNITY CEMETERY PRESERVATION FUND | $30,000 |
| THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SHARING HOUSE | $25,000 |
| WNC COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $21,600 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE LA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS | $10,000 |
| ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE THEATER | $7,700 |
| TURTLE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM | $2,500 |
| BREVARD MUSIC CENTER | $2,000 |
| IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NYNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL2× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL2× · 2018–2020 · $55k · revenue +15%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2021 · $52k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- WGWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -18%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- THThe Huntington Library Art Collectione grant, 2021 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Federation of Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITY CEMETERY PRESERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Elevator Repair Service Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WNC Communities ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE IBMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Starkey Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Steve Martin Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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