· Private foundation
The Martin Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $34,000 |
| ST SEBASTIANS SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC | $25,000 |
| THE WILY NETWORK INC | $15,000 |
| ST SEBASTIANS SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS | $10,000 |
| LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOLDERNESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TCTHE CARROLL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +76%
- BSBROOKS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +25%
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- TCTHE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -28%
- DFDowneast Family Young Mens Christian Associationone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +12%
- SCSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +7%
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.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 64 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 CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INN DWELLING INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds George Stevens Academy ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIND THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds J WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds URBAN GOLF CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II INC ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA 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: Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Fidelity Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Prior Family Foundation · Whitehall Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Davis Family 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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.