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Steve Martin Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$265k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$904kEducation$130kHealth$92kPhilanthropy$62kRecreation & Sports$40kHuman Services$39kYouth Development$33kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$21,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$577k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PUBLIC THEATER$50,000
UNITY CEMETERY PRESERVATION FUND$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY$25,000
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$25,000
WNC COMMUNITIES$25,000
SHARING HOUSE$25,000
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM$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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The People Concern: $5k → 14%the New York Foundling: $3k → 13%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
NE
TN
NC
DC
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$732k · 25 repeat orgs$683k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
43

Total granted

$732k
$586k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+36%

Still filing today

72%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    2× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +33%
  • TB
    THE BREARLEY SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2020 · $55k · revenue +15%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2017–2021 · $52k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WG
    WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
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
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
8
The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
10
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Federation of Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 78 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe Huntington Library Art Collecti: $50,000 · OtherThe Huntington Library Art CollectiIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe New Victory Theater: $40,000 · OtherThe New Victory TheaterElevator Repair ServiceTheatre: $37,131 · OtherElevator Repair ServiceTheatreMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CEN: $31,216 · OtherThe Fund for Davidson: $30,000 · OtherTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $25,000 · OtherFreshgrass: $22,500 · OtherFresh Grass Foundation-S Martin Ban: $22,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $21,600 · Other+31 more: $165,655 · Other+31 moreWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATIONTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $76,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $52,248 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTElevator Repair Service Theater Inc: $39,450 · Arts & CultureElevator Repair Service Theater IncTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of Art: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE IBMA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $70,156 · Arts & Culture+11 moreUNITY CEMETERY PRESERVATION FUND: $51,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $12,500 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $55,000 · EducationDavidson College: $10,000 · EducationDAI VERNON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentWNC Communities: $26,500 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$640,602Arts & Culture$542,854Philanthropy$74,500Education$70,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Youth Development$30,000Food & Nutrition$28,000

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 budgetWRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $76,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $52,248 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY CEMETERY PRESERVATION FUND: $51,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetElevator Repair Service Theater Inc: $39,450 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWNC Communities: $26,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IBMA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDavidson College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $9,656 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDURING HEARTS INC: $5,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAI VERNON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMontecito Community Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY PLAYERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $500 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.

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 Howard Gilman Fou…The Community Foundat…Jewish Communal FundCalifornia Community …National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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How do I get to Steve Martin Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Steve Martin Charitable 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 78 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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