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The Martino Family Foundation Co Michael E Martino

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$14MHealth$7.0MReligion$3.4MCivil Rights$2.8MPublic Benefit$1.5MSocial Science$1.1MHousing & Shelter$980kHuman Services$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $903k
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.5M
$150,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,200,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$900,000
INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$850,000
FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION INC$850,000
TENEO NETWORK INC$400,000
THE DOE FUND$280,000
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY$200,000
CATO INSTITUTE$150,000
MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH$150,000
TURNING POINT USA$150,000
LIVELIFETOTHEMAX$103,000
ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL$100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$50,000
ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $250k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $250k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $50k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 22 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$31M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+53%

Still filing today

77%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $531k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitSocial SciencePhilanthropyInternationalHealthOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +132%
  • Fairfield University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +63%
  • TF
    THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Becket Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +81%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +57%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +312%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsYouth Development CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Education Equity LeadershipClassical Music EnsemblesVeteran Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Child and Family ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%70%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,550,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCANNUAL CATHOLIC APpeal — $2,950,000 · OtherANNUAL CATHOLIC APpealTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $2,498,450 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY…TURNING POINT USA INC — $550,000 · OtherFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $550,000 · Other+18 more — $1,677,500 · Other+18 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $6,600,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Inst…Fairfield University — $5,550,000 · EducationFairfield UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · Education+4 more — $457,550 · Education+4 moreFoundations in Education Inc — $2,150,000 · PhilanthropyTeneo Network Inc — $400,000 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE — $675,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $500,000 · Public BenefitTHE DOE FUND INC — $980,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $516,000 · Social ScienceThe Becket Fund — $250,000 · Social Science
Other$13,775,950Health$6,600,000Education$6,307,550Philanthropy$2,550,000Public Benefit$1,175,000Housing & Shelter$980,000Social Science$766,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $6,600,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield University — $5,550,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,550,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $2,498,450 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc — $2,150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $980,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $675,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $550,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $550,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $516,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $500,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTeneo Network Inc — $400,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $275,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Becket Fund — $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC — $207,550 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSURFERS ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE — $114,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST LUKE'S SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $46,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $38,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA12.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Martino Family Foundation Co Michael E Martino 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc17% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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