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The Martin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Martin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$31kYouth Development$9kRecreation & Sports$4kSocial Science$4kEducation$500Crime & Legal$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
4
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST WEST MINISTRIES$1,700
YOUNG LIFE$1,000
LIBERTY INSTITUTE$500
TELL MY PEOPLE INC$500
COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP$400
RICK BARTON MINISTRIES$200
DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$200
DATE PALM CONSULTING$200
INT'L MISSION BOARD$100
CRU MILITARY$100
PINE COVE$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%LAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH: $600 → 5%DATE PALM CONSULTING: $200 → 5%PINE COVE: $100 → 12%VICTIM RELIEF MINISTRIES: $200 → 14%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $500 → 16%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $500 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%LAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH: $500 → 5%DATE PALM CONSULTING: $200 → 5%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $200 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%LAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH: $500 → 5%DATE PALM CONSULTING: $200 → 5%THE URBAN ALTERNATIVE: $300 → 14%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $200 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%LAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH: $500 → 5%DATE PALM CONSULTING: $200 → 5%THE URBAN ALTERNATIVE: $300 → 14%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $200 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%LAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH: $500 → 5%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $200 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $200 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%RICK BARTON MINISTRIES: $200 → 10%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 6%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP: $400 → 6%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $2k → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $500 → 5%LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $400 → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 13 repeat orgs$700 to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$49k
$600

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+90%

Still filing today

54%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +59%
  • CG
    College Golf Fellowship
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +155%
  • RB
    Rick Barton Ministries Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +43%
  • EI
    EvanTell Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100 · revenue +90%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Equippers Group International

To produce and publish training materials for church leadership and development. To facilitate churches groups and individual participation in world mission.

Religion
2
International Biblical Training Inc

International Biblical Training is a teaching, training and equipping religious ministry. IBT staff provide theological teaching and training for the purpose of making Christian disciples who in turn train and disciple others in…

Religion
3
Discover the Book Ministries Inc

The purpose of Discover the Book Ministries is evangelization and discipleship through various means consistent with the Holy Scriptures to help build and strengthen the Church of Jesus Christ. Our ministries include online resources,…

Religion
4
Tim Robnett Ministries Dba ETeamGlobal

To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.

Religion
5
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
6
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
7
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
8
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
9
Tyndale Bible Translators

Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services

Religion
10
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
11
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
12
Master Plan Ministries

To share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, teach Biblical Christianity (discipleship) and do leadership training with college students. Activities include weekly connect meetings, Bible studies, retreats, counseling and mission projects.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Theological Seminary; the most unlike its peers is Baylor University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East-West Ministries International: $16,400 · ReligionEast-West Ministries InternationalTELL MY PEOPLE INC: $5,900 · ReligionTELL MY PEOPLE INCCollege Golf Fellowship: $4,400 · ReligionCollege Golf Fellowship+3 more: $1,500 · ReligionLIBERTY INSTITUTE: $4,400 · OtherLIBERTY INSTITUTELAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,600 · OtherLAKE POINTE BAPTIST CHUR…Rick Barton Ministries Inc: $1,900 · OtherRick Barton Ministries I…CRU MILITARY: $900 · OtherCRU MILITARYPINE COVE INC: $600 · OtherPINE COVE INC+2 more: $400 · OtherYOUNG LIFE: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEDallas Theological Seminary: $1,500 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $500 · Education
Religion$28,200Other$10,800Youth Development$9,000Education$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast-West Ministries International: $16,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTELL MY PEOPLE INC: $5,900 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $4,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRick Barton Ministries Inc: $1,900 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDATE PALM CONSULTING: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvanTell Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 East-West Ministries International ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds TELL MY PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds Rick Barton Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
  • Who funds DATE PALM CONSULTING ↗
  • Who funds The Urban Alternative ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EvanTell 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…Servant FoundationChristian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Martin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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