Michigan · Private foundation
The We Martin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The We Martin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $200k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $183k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $184k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $197k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $173k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $110k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $166k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $8k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Compassion Network | $128,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Isabella Community Soup Kitchen | $124,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Central Michigan University | $76,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Women's Aid Service Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum | $47,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Crisis Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Isabella County Restoration House | $9,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Vets With Nets | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Compassion Network | $128,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Isabella Community Soup Kitchen | $124,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Central Michigan University | $76,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Women's Aid Service Inc | $55,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum | $47,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Crisis Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Isabella County Restoration House | $9,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Vets With Nets | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ted Lindsay Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Art Reach of Mid Michigan | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($686k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The We Martin Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Central Michigan · Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Dorsay · Fabiano Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The We Martin Foundation
- How much does The We Martin Foundation give?
- The We Martin Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The We Martin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The We Martin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Compassion Network ($128k), Isabella Community Soup Kitchen ($124k), Central Michigan University ($77k).
- Does The We Martin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The We Martin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The We Martin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Central Michigan, Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd, Dorsay.
- Where is The We Martin Foundation based?
- The We Martin Foundation is based in MI.
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