· Private foundation
The We Martin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MT PLEASANT AREA COMM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHIPPEWA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| ISBELLA COUNTY RESTORATIN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MT PLEASANT DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICH | $5,000 |
| VETS WITH NETS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL MI VETERAN'S FUND | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK7× · 2019–2025 · $128k · revenue +85%
- ICISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN7× · 2019–2025 · $124k · revenue +102%
- 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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The We Martin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The We Martin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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