· Private foundation
The John 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+9 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,500,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $1,500,000 |
| ARANDA ORG INC | $1,250,000 |
| PHARMACCESS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSIS FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $394,478 |
| THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH COALITION FOR GLOBAL HEPATITIS ELIMINATION | $238,563 |
| Individual grant recipient | $236,348 |
| WORLD HEPATITIS ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| THE GLOBAL HEPATITIS ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH COALITION FOR GLOBAL HEPATITIS ELIMINATION | $150,000 |
| SOCIETY ON LIVER DISEASE IN AFRICA | $58,771 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 70% of grant dollars ($44M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($19M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($19M)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of The John Martin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 11%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2023–2025 · $6.8M · revenue -21%
- CFCENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSIS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +74% · 49% of their budget
- IOINSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE2× · 2024–2025 · $5.8M
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSISone grant, 2017 · $1.1M
- BDBEIJING DITAN HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $400k
- IOINSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMOREone grant, 2020 · $396k
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.
Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.
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Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To discover, develop and deliver safe, effective and affordable vaccines for global public health. its vision is developing countries free of suffering from infectious disease.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 37 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 THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISEASE ANALYSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARANDAORG INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL VIRUS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ALASKA NATIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFORMED HORIZONS EDUCATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Raymond F Schinazi & Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John Martin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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