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The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$407k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$40k0%
FY20232$22k50%
FY20224$70k75%
FY20213$50k33%
FY20203$45k33%
FY20192$50k0%
FY20172$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$277kPublic Benefit$30kEducation$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
ALS Network$175,30071%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc$70,00040%
Als Cure Project Inc$20,00026%
Duke University$10,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.

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How do I get to The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation

How much does The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation give?
The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (85%), Public Benefit (9%), Education (6%).
Who are The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: ALS Network ($175k), Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc ($70k), Als Cure Project Inc ($20k).
Does The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation based?
The Martha Olson-Fernandez Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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