· Private foundation
The Martin Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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
- Under $10k64 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION INC | $25,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| SIXTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST WASHINGTON DC | $3,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $2,000 |
| LITTLE FALLS WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC | $2,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $2,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC | $1,000 |
| CEDARS CAMPS | $1,000 |
| A WIDER CIRCLE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Martin Family Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
105 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION3× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +59%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +156%
- LFLITTLE FALLS WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +442%
Funded once
- CSCHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $5k
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -66%- PBPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +82%
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
How this is measured
129 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. 129 of the 151 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.
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- Who funds LITTLE FALLS WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INLAND BAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
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- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Kay Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Martin Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martin Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kind to Kids Foundation: 69% of income from government
- Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company Inc: 64% of income from government
- Center for the Inland Bays Inc: 59% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
- Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
- Rehoboth Art League Inc: 8% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
- Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Salisbury University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
- Local Journalism Initiative Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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