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The Martin Foundation at a glance

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The Martin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$355k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NASHVILLE BALLET$50,000
HEALING MINDS AND SOULS$10,000
CORNER TO CORNER$10,000
OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES INC$10,000
PENCIL$10,000
GODSPEED$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONEXION AMERICAS: $3k → 14%CORNER TO CORNER: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
One New Heartbeat

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,…

Human Services
2
The Healing House and New Beginnings Inc

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.

Health
3
Black Mental Health & Wellness
Health
4
My Fathers House Nashville

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Neighborhood Wellness Foundation

Disrupting intergenerational trauma and poverty in Del Paso Heights and surrounging areas.

Community Improvement
6
Homeless Childrens Network

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…

Human Services
7
Alianza of New Mexico

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.

Human Services
8
Christian Recovery Center

Providing hope, healing & freedom from the experience of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse

Religion
9
Nami-Greater Cleveland

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…

Health
10
Baby Blues Connection

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.

Health
11
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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12
Bridging the Gap Hp Nfp

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NASHVILLE BALLET: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE BALLETHealing Minds and Souls: $10,000 · HealthHealing Minds and So…Black Mental Health Village: $10,000 · HealthBlack Mental Health …RENEWAL HOUSE INC: $2,500 · HealthRENEWAL HOUSE INCGODSPEED: $10,000 · OtherGODSPEEDHOPE STATION: $7,500 · OtherHOPE STATIONNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: $750 · OtherCorner To Corner: $10,000 · Human ServicesCorner To C…CONEXION AMERICAS: $3,000 · Human ServicesCONEXION AM…OUR CHURCH MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionOUR CHURC…PENCIL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPENCIL FO…NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMETAMORPHOSIS BEAUTIFULLY CHANGED INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$50,000Health$22,500Other$18,250Human Services$13,000Religion$10,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$1,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationNashville Predators F…Memorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…Saint Thomas West Hos…Enchiridion FoundationThe Steven & Laurie E…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Tennessee Titans Foun…The Healing Trust For…Vanderbilt UniversityUnited Way of Middle …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Martin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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