· Private foundation
The Martin Family Fund Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,500 |
| VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC | $1,500 |
| WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET | $1,500 |
| NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER | $500 |
| THE FRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY | $500 |
| ST HUBERT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL (PHILA) | $500 |
| TAILS | $500 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $500 |
| FLAT ROCK BROOK NATURE ASSOCIATION INC | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TVTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +157%
Williams College7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +87%- BCBOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- TSTHE ST FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TVTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATERone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tails. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 55 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 THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING TRUTH HOLINESS CHURCH OF GOD INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Choral Society ↗
- Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MOZARTINA MUSICAL ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds TAILS ↗
- Who funds REIMAGINING JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baldwin Wallace University ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Choral Society — 27% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.