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The Martin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$355k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$50kReligion$38kHealth$20kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Martin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nashville Ballet$50,00011%
Corner To Corner$10,00011%
Our Church Ministries Inc$10,0001n/a
Pencil Foundation$10,00010%
Healing Minds and Souls$10,00015%
Black Mental Health Village$10,00016%
Conexion Americas$3,00010%
Renewal House Inc$2,50010%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$1,00010%
Metamorphosis Beautifully Changed Inc$1,0001n/a
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$75010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), 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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNashville Ballet: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCorner To Corner: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPencil Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Minds and Souls: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBlack Mental Health Village: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetConexion Americas: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenewal House Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Center for Family Philanthropy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Frist FoundationTN15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Martin Foundation

How much does The Martin Foundation give?
The Martin Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $124,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Martin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Religion (30%), Health (16%).
Who are The Martin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Nashville Ballet ($50k), Corner To Corner ($10k), Our Church Ministries Inc ($10k).
Does The Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Martin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frist Foundation, Nashville Predators Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc.
Where is The Martin Foundation based?
The Martin Foundation is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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