· Private foundation
The John G Martin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +214%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
75 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. 75 of the 147 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds OTIS PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- 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 SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John G Martin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John G Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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