· Private foundation
The Ellen Wills Martin 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORANGUTAN OUTREACH | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ROMANIAN CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISES - SONRISE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| ANGLICAN RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UKRAINE | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEACH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| ROMANIAN CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISES - ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
| ANGLICAN RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (UKRAINE | $2,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE ORDER OF ST JOHN | $2,000 |
| CARE USA | $2,000 |
| HIDDEN WINGS | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 21 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- RCROMANIAN CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISES8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +116%
- OLOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +24%
- OOORANGUTAN OUTREACH INC ATTN RICHARD ZIMMERMAN8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +67%
Funded once
BARD COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +245%- BFBURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +36%
- NYNew York Universityone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +11%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. 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 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 95 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 ROMANIAN CHRISTIAN ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN OUTREACH INC ATTN RICHARD ZIMMERMAN ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN WINGS ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW MISSION SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Chubb Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bessemer Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 The Ellen Wills 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.
- Norfolk Land Trust Inc — 49% 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.