· Private foundation
The Martin Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| JACKSON ACADEMY | $22,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CSRA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- TBTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +11%
- AWALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +69%
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC3× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +772%
Funded once
- AHALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +366%
- TLTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue +15%
- COCITY OF FAIRHOPEone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.
To build the ability of Alabama citizens and organizations to promote conservation through government and civic action.
The alabama forestry association works to promote good stewardship of our renewable forest resources for the benefit of society, our members, and the forest products industry.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
The South Alabama Land Trust protects land and promotes environmental education in coastal Alabama so current and future residents can enjoy clean water and the seafood, wildlife, and outdoor recreation that define our area.
The alabama association of conservation districts (aacd) is the unified voice of alabama's 67 conservation districts. organized as a 501(c)3, aacd works in cooperation with the alabama soil & water conservation committee, federal, state,…
Alabama audubon's mission is to promote conservation and a greater knowledge of birds, their habitats, and the natural world.
The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.
The business and purpose of this corporation shall be to promote, protect, and represent the interest of owners of forest lands in the state of Alabama; to make Alabama Forest Owners Association members the most knowledgeable forest…
Acquire, preserve, protect, restore, manage & improve alabama lands & water of ecological, scientific, scenic, wildlife or recreational significance. conduct, sponsor, and encourage, engage in ecological study & research. support…
The alabama state parks foundation was formed in 2018 to raise dollars to supplement state funding of the alabama state parks. the foundation is led by a board of directors who seek to mobilize a statewide network of citizen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Low Country Game Bird Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 30 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 ALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LOW COUNTRY GAME BIRD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN COUNTY DRUG COURT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH AL BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHOPE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM AND WHISKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Drug Education Council Inc ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Mobile Baykeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA CONSERVATION ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SUPPORT OF ALABAMA INC ↗
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: Mw Smith Jr Foundation · The Sybil and White Smith Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Martin Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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