How much does The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation give?

The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $402,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Education (36%), Religion (8%).

Who are The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Colgate University ($360k), Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc ($54k), Phi Gamma Delta Educational Foundation Inc ($5k).

Does The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ruggles Family Foundation, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation based?

The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation is based in CT.

The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation

The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$403k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$562kEducation$370kReligion$81kPublic Benefit$4kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$860Housing & Shelter$600Civil Rights$450Other$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $3k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$100

Median grant

States reached

$549k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RVNA	$300,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY	$100,000
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE	$400
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH	$300
LOUNSBURY HOUSE	$200
JUDICIAL WATCH	$200
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER	$200
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE	$200
Individual grant recipient	$200
AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE	$100
DISABLED VETS NATIONAL FOUNDATION	$100
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$100
STATE POLICY NETWORK	$100
AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION	$100
NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND	$100

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$868k · 26 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$868k

$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

Still filing today

58%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

CU
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
3× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +60%
RH
REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $54k · revenue +13%
PG
PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +157%

Funded once

NL
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $100k
BH
BETHESDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $1k

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.

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.

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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

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

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

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Hss 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

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/26

Grantees still filing

17/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$599,760Education$360,800Human Services$57,700Public Benefit$2,830Health$1,650Civil Rights$350Youth Development$200Arts & Culture$100

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

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.

Ruggles Family FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ruggles Family Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patricia M and Robert H Martinsen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home