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The Albert Jay Martin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Albert Jay Martin Family 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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.

Food & Nutrition$3.0MYouth Development$2.9MHealth$2.3MEmployment$800kHuman Services$588kCommunity Improvement$445kCivil Rights$310kPublic Benefit$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE$25,000
BALMORAL BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
THRIVE MEMPHIS$10,000
YADKIN ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $5k → 21%MOUNTAIN VALLEY HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $20k → 12%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%THRIVE MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $125k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%STREETS MINISTRIES: $10k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $50k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 17%CALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 32 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
36

Total granted

$11M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+21%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS
    5× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +108%
  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +54%
  • MC
    MY CITY RIDES
    2× · 2017–2020 · $800k · revenue +269% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • E
    EPICENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • GB
    GREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -31%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA FL
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
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
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
2
Memphis Tomorrow

Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.

Community Improvement
3
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
4
Collegiate School of Memphis

To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.

Education
5
City Leadership

City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…

Public Benefit
6
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
7
Reach Memphis

Reach memphis helps high achieving students from shelby county public schools succeed in high school, college and beyond using a continuum of services including summer educational experiences, college readiness planning and counseling, and…

Education
8
Memphis Rise Academy Inc

To provide students in grades 6-12 with an excellent education, preparing them to pursue ambitious goals and succeed in college.

Education
9
Lead Public Schools Inc

Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.

Education
10
University School of Jackson

The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.

Education
11
The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc

The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.

Arts & Culture
12
Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Porter-Leath; the most unlike its peers is One Million Wells 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

34 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. 34 of the 69 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)
33/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 · HealthTHE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INCCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $2,150,000 · HealthCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $2,519,520 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GR…+2 more: $79,000 · Youth DevelopmentEPICENTER MEMPHIS: $300,000 · OtherEPICENTER MEMPHISVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $260,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMER…BRIDGES USA INC: $130,000 · OtherBRIDGES USA INCNEW LEADERS: $100,000 · OtherEPICENTER: $100,000 · OtherST JOHN'S METHODIST CHURCH: $97,500 · OtherBALMORAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $90,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 · Other+39 more: $629,109 · Other+39 moreMY CITY RIDES: $800,000 · EmploymentA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE MEMPHIS: $30,000 · Human ServicesCALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Surry County Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $300,000 · Civil RightsST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $52,000 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $5,000 · EducationCROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $5,000 · Education
Health$5,150,000Youth Development$2,598,520Other$1,881,609Employment$800,000Human Services$595,000Civil Rights$300,000Education$127,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $2,519,520 over 5y, 14% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $2,150,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMY CITY RIDES: $800,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $300,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBRIDGES USA INC: $130,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPORTER-LEATH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHRIVE MEMPHIS: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCALVARY RESCUE MISSION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYadkin Arts Council Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ENTREPRENEURS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHospice of Surry County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Jackson: $19,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRIVERARTSFEST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-STATE BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEW DAY CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE MILLION WELLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTIMS TO VICTORY INC: $500 over 1y, 1.4% 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 JUICE PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MY CITY RIDES ↗
  • Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREEN BRONX MACHINE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE MEMPHIS ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Yadkin Arts Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ENTREPRENEURS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Surry County Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Jackson ↗
  • Who funds RIVERARTSFEST INC ↗

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 …The Kemmons Wilson Fa…Crews Family Foundati…Thomas W Briggs Found…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Belz FoundationUnited Way of the Mid…St Mary's Episcopal S…Elvis Presley Charita…Speer Charitable TrustDeupree Family Founda…
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN36.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 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 · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Belz Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · St Mary's Episcopal School · Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation Inc · Speer Charitable Trust · Deupree Family Foundation (2155000180) Regions Bank Trustee

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 The Albert Jay Martin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Albert Jay Martin Family 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 18%
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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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Find your warmest path to The Albert Jay 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 69 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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