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The Martino Foundation at a glance

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The Martino Foundation

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.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$314kHuman Services$105kHealth$56kArts & Culture$38kEducation$21kReligion$15kAnimals$11kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATTANOOGA RED WOLVES FOUNDATION$80,000
CHI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$15,500
BAKER & EMILY MAYFIELD FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$10,000
VALSPAR$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BAKER & EMILY MAYFIELD FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 14%PEACE HOUSE: $35k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $18k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $15k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $10k → 5%EAST RIDGE NEEDY CHILD FUND: $2k → 12%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$478k · 9 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$478k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+37%

Still filing today

44%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    CHATTANOOGA RED WOLVES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $280k
  • PH
    Peace House Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $83k · revenue -31%
  • MH
    MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • HM
    HUNTER MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • JC
    JE COSGRIFF MEMORIAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • YC
    YELLOWSTONE CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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2
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
4
Utah Sports Commission Foundation

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…

Recreation & Sports
5
Peak Hope Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Team Park City United

Putting atheletes first, we share our life long passion for competative winter sports. From grass roots through elite levels, we will provide a safe, fun, respectful and healthy environment; where, through hard work, individual goals can…

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7
United States Ski Team Foundation

Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.

Recreation & Sports
8
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
9
Utah Athletic Foundation

Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.

Recreation & Sports
10
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
11
Summit Health Foundation
Health
12
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ability Center; the most unlike its peers is The Baker & Emily Mayfield Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATTANOOGA RED WOLVES FOUNDATION: $280,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA RED WOLVES FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 · OtherMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INCTENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM: $17,000 · OtherHUNTER MUSEUM: $15,500 · Other+13 more: $70,500 · Other+13 morePeace House Inc: $82,500 · Human ServicesPeace House IncThe Baker & Emily Mayfield Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Baker & Emily M…+2 more: $3,176 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUS SPEEDSKATING: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER FOR HOPE: $25,500 · HealthSummit Land Conservancy: $5,135 · EnvironmentCHARITY POLO CLASSIC INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPark City Education Foundation: $1,000 · Education
Other$413,500Human Services$100,676Recreation & Sports$29,000Health$25,500Environment$5,135Philanthropy$5,000Education$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 budgetPeace House Inc: $82,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOCCER FOR HOPE: $25,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Baker & Emily Mayfield Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUS SPEEDSKATING: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $5,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY POLO CLASSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCCER FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Baker & Emily Mayfield Foundation ↗
  • Who funds US SPEEDSKATING ↗
  • Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY POLO CLASSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST RIDGE NEEDY CHILD FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHATT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗

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.

Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Martino Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martino Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Martino Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Martino Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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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