· Private foundation
The Martin Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- Under $10k16 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $515k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTERAL DENVER CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL | $515,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE | $200,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION | $150,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC | $115,000 |
| NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS | $100,000 |
| WYOMING CATHOLIC COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| CHRIST IN THE CITY | $95,000 |
| CAPUCHIN PROVINCE OF MID-AMERICA | $75,000 |
| WYOMING RESCUE MISSION | $55,000 |
| DENVER DREAM CENTER | $50,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $50,000 |
| ESCUELA DE GUADALUPE | $50,000 |
| EMMAUS CATHOLIC HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| SBA PRO-LIFE AMERICA | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $485k) 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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 15 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +194%
- WRWyoming Rescue Mission8× · 2017–2024 · $569k · revenue +27%
- BNBELLA NATURAL WOMEN'S CARE7× · 2017–2024 · $489k · revenue +411%
Funded once
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSone grant, 2018 · $105k
Augustine Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +167%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES-MARISOL HOMESone grant, 2017 · $56k
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.
Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.
Vocation Ministry's mission is to equip the Church once again to awaken the call of a vocation within the human heart by creating an environment that encourages men and women to say "Yes" to God's call in their lives to the priesthood,…
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.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Real Life Ministries invites couples to take the next step in their relationship with God, themselves and others. This is done through individual and couples counseling as well as life coaching. Real Life offers teaching and training…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
A door of hope pregnancy center is a christ-centered organization that empowers people to make life-affirming and healthy decisions, particularly about sex, pregnancy and relationships.
Based on our commitment to catholic social teaching, catholic social services of montana provides for works of advocacy, compassion, pastoral outreach, education and social justice.
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelis Center for Law & Policy and the most unlike its peers is The Vine Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
91 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. 91 of the 161 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 ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds BELLA NATURAL WOMEN'S CARE ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Christ in the City ↗
- Who funds ARMA DEI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BILLINGS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIFE PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHASTITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRACE MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Capitol Hill Community Services ↗
- Who funds Camp Wojtyla Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlight Catholic Ministries ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗
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: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Daniels Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Ztyl Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Heider Family Foundation Co Susan H Coleman · Saeman Family Foundation a Charitable Trust · Pema Foundation Inc · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Anschutz 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
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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