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The Martin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHVILLE BALLET | $50,000 |
| CORNER TO CORNER | $10,000 |
| OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| PENCIL | $10,000 |
| GODSPEED | $10,000 |
| HEALING MINDS AND SOULS | $10,000 |
| BLACK MENTAL HEALTH VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| HOPE STATION | $7,500 |
| CONEXION AMERICAS | $3,000 |
| RENEWAL HOUSE | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY | $750 |
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 (FY24–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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.
Onhb is dedicated to improving the mental, emotional, & physical well-being of individuals and communities through a multifaceted approach including comprehensive training & direct services for marginalized individuals, families,…
The mission of the healing house and new beginnings, inc. is to rebuild shattered lives through a program of action by teaching spiritual principles which are rooted and grounded in the holy and living word of god.
The mission of My Fathers House Nashville (MFHN) is to provide shelter, parenting education, recovery information and life skills for fathers transitioning out of institutional settings or homelessness.
Disrupting intergenerational trauma and poverty in Del Paso Heights and surrounging areas.
To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…
Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.
Providing hope, healing & freedom from the experience of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
Nami-greater cleveland is dedicated to empowering persons affected by mental illness, and their family members, to achieve a better quality of life by providing them with mutual support, practical information, referral, advocacy and…
The Mission of Baby Blues Connection is to provide mental health support and build community with parents and birthing people coping with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders through connection, information and resources.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
Bridging the Gap HP NFP aims to reduce violence through incident tracking, mediations, canvasing and program service delivery for high risk individuals. It is the goal of the organization to create a healthier and beloved community through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and the most unlike its peers is Nashville Ballet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 NASHVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds Black Mental Health Village ↗
- Who funds OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healing Minds and Souls ↗
- Who funds Corner To Corner ↗
- Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds METAMORPHOSIS BEAUTIFULLY CHANGED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY ↗
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 Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Saint Thomas West Hospital · Enchiridion Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Tennessee Titans Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Vanderbilt University · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc
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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.