How much does The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation give?

The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $64,483 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (43%), Human Services (20%), Education (14%).

Who are The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ($38k), Association of Student Entrepreneurs ($28k), Heart's Cry Children's Ministry ($18k).

Does The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, Chaucer Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation based?

The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation is based in NC.

The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation

The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$64k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$23k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$204kHuman Services$97kEducation$64kInternational$50kYouth Development$16kHousing & Shelter$16kHealth$13kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $29k
$10k–50k2 grants · $36k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$722k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE BOOSTER CLUB	$1,000
ALLIANCE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP	$1,000
APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$1,000
BRIAN HAMILTON FOUNDATION	$1,000
HOPE INTERNATIONAL	$750
SALVATION ARMY OF WORLD SERVICE OFFICE	$500

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 76%.

The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$423k · 26 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$423k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+16%

Still filing today

58%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHealthReligionOther

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

TY
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +24%
HC
HEART'S CRY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +319%
ST
ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL
3× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +31%

Funded once

H
HBUMC
one grant, 2021 · $25k
AF
APPALACHIAN FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $4k
FO
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +69%

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.

North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

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…

Education

For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated

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."

Religion

Greensboro College

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.

Education

Northeastern Seminary

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…

Education

Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education

Erskine College and Theological Seminary

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.

Education

Christianity Today International

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.

Religion

Disability Rights North Carolina

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.

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The University of North Carolina At Greensboro Investment Fund Inc

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.

Education

Hope Academy of Charlotte Inc

Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

16/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$324,687Human Services$46,000Education$33,500International$24,900Youth Development$15,200Housing & Shelter$15,000Religion$13,250

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

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bobby and Gloria Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home