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The We Martin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRC OF ISABELLA COUNTY | $96,000 |
| COMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK | $20,000 |
| ISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $11,500 |
| CRC OF ISABELLA COUNTY | $10,500 |
| RISE ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
| CHIPPEWA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MT PLEASANT AREA COMM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| MT PLEASANT DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICH | $5,000 |
| ISBELLA COUNTY RESTORATIN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| VETS WITH NETS | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL MI VETERAN'S FUND | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCOMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK7× · 2019–2025 · $128k · revenue +85%
- ICISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN7× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +48%
- CWCHIPPEWA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CACULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL COMMISSION OF ISABELLAone grant, 2019 · $112k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
- ICISABELLA COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To provide grants to individuals and organizations of lapeer county for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
Inspired by the church's social teachings, catholic charities west michigan fosters individuals and families to flourish by providing help and creating hope.
To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.
The mission is to provide food to needy and/or homeless veterans of macomb county michigan
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ted Lindsay Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S AID SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA COUNTY RESTORATION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TED LINDSAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART REACH OF MID MICHIGAN ↗
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.
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
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 We Martin Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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