Minnesota · Private foundation
The Martinson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $764k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Martinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $57k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $60k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $61k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $51k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $49k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $49k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $48k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $47k | n/a |
83% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Health$105kEducation$85kPublic Benefit$50kArts & Culture$38kRecreation & Sports$15kMembership Benefit$14kYouth Development$12kReligion$11kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preserve Appletons Heritage | $32,900 | 4 | 10% |
| Appleton Recreation Association Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 58% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Holloway First Responders | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Valley Lutheran Church | $2,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Food for Our Learning Youth | $1,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Home-2-Home Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amvets | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milan Village Arts School Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Zion Lutheran Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($352k), not named here.
About The Martinson Foundation
- How much does The Martinson Foundation give?
- The Martinson Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $56,993 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Martinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Education (20%), Public Benefit (12%).
- Who are The Martinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Preserve Appletons Heritage ($33k), Appleton Recreation Association Inc ($15k), Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($10k).
- Does The Martinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Martinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Martinson Foundation based?
- The Martinson Foundation is based in MN.
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