Delaware · 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.
- $217k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Martin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $217k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $185k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $176k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $188k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $279k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $200k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $267k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $228k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Carroll School | $350,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Brooks School | $330,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $254,200 | 9 | 1% |
| St Sebastians School Inc | $242,500 | 9 | n/a |
| The Wily Network | $97,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The New Hampton School | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Holderness School | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| LifeFlight Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Blue Hill Fire Company | $40,000 | 7 | 9% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Martin Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Martin Foundation
- How much does The Martin Foundation give?
- The Martin Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $216,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Martin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Health (9%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are The Martin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Carroll School ($351k), Brooks School ($330k), The Epiphany School Inc ($254k).
- Does The Martin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Martin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Martin Foundation based?
- The Martin Foundation is based in DE.
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