· Private foundation
The John G Martin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH | $120,000 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE | $31,000 |
| SOUTH PARK INN INC | $30,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER | $28,850 |
| IN A HEARTBEAT | $26,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $25,000 |
| GAYLORD SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE | $25,000 |
| FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER | $23,686 |
| ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY | $21,000 |
| GIFTS OF LOVE | $20,000 |
| ST BRIDGET SCHOOL | $11,925 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $11,500 |
| OTIS FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| STONEHILL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SENIORS JOB BANK | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 11 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k 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
- EPELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $194k · revenue +141%
- AOAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +53%
- HMHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $126k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF WEST HARTFORD WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $75k
- CHCT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM & LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $35k
- SPST PAUL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $30k
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…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
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…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is Beat the Street Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 147 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 ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OTIS PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds IN A HEARTBEAT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Hartford County Bar Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation 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 John G 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- Ball & Socket Arts Inc — 26% of income from government
- Beat the Street Community Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Meriden Farmers Market Inc — 22% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Seniors Job Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Valley Pre-Schoolinc — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 0% 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.
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