· Private foundation
The Bobby and Gloria Martin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAYES BARTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC | $12,500 |
| HEART'S CRY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS | $5,000 |
| CHAPEL BY THE LAKE | $3,500 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $3,333 |
| WEE CARE CHILDRENS ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| STEP UP MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| BRIAN HAMILTON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
| SANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE BOOSTER CLUB | $1,000 |
| APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $750 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +24%
- HCHEART'S CRY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +319%
- STST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL3× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HHBUMCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AFAPPALACHIAN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $4k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +69%
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 mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.
Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brian Hamilton 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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 The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds HEART'S CRY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Chapel by the Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Grandfather Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAN HAMILTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sanderson High School Theatre Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Replogle Family Foundation · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · John & Frances Morisey Trust Account · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Barnhill Family Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
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 The Bobby and Gloria Martin 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.
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.