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Tj Martell Foundation

The t.j.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$4.5M
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$125,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$125,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$125,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$125,000
CITY OF HOPE$125,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$125,000
CHILDERN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$125,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $125k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $250k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $125k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $125k → 16%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $500k → 14%WINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE OF EMORY UNIVERSITY: $100k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $250k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $125k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER: $500k → 14%CHILDERN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $125k → 14%COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CANCER CENTER: $300k → 17%MD ANERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%VANDERBILT-INGRAM CANCER CENTER: $242k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $125k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $300k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $30k → 16%VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER: $149k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125k → 17%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $125k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $125k → 17%VANDERBILT-INGRAM CANCER CENTER: $23k → 14%MT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of Tj Martell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 34% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 11%.

Tj Martell Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$3.2M · 8 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$3.2M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+82%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +65%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    3× · 2018–2024 · $625k · revenue +27%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $538k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $125k
  • RW
    Robert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +50%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +82%
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.

1
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
2
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
3
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
University of Maryland Medical System Corporation

Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.

Health
5
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
6
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
7
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
9
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University: $1,000,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $725,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF …ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $225,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIRobert W Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund Inc: $100,000 · EducationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $625,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesVanderbilt University Medical Center: $538,295 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterCITY OF HOPE: $325,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPEMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75,000 · HealthM D ANDERSON PHYSICIANS NETWORK: $200,000 · OtherM D ANDERSON PHYSICIA…UTMD ANDERSON: $155,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $125,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTER…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $125,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVER…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $125,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTER…
Education$2,050,000Health$1,563,295Other$855,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $725,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $625,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $538,295 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tj Martell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tj Martell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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