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Ttees Joseph Martinson Memorial Fund at a glance

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Ttees Joseph Martinson Memorial Fund

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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$218kHealth$135kCivil Rights$122kEducation$93kHuman Services$55kReligion$8k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK ART$25,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$15,000
CHILDRENS AID$15,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$15,000
CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND$15,000
FIRST BOOK$15,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$15,000
AIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT$10,000
GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL$10,000
VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDRENS AID: $15k → 17%CHILDRENS AID: $15k → 17%CHILDRENS AID: $15k → 17%CHILDRENS AID: $10k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$608k · 12 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$608k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+94%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $67k · revenue +37%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $56k · revenue +52%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TC
    TOWNSHEND CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • BA
    BRATTLEBORO AIDS PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +94%
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
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
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
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
7
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
8
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
9
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
10
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
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
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is New York Shakespeare Festival. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $67,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUNDTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $55,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RI…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INCAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $64,613 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEU…NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $56,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FE…SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY I…MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FOLK ART: $64,331 · OtherMUSEUM OF AMERICAN…Vermont Public Radio: $24,000 · OtherVermont Public Rad…TOWNSHEND CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherTOWNSHEND CHURCHBRATTLEBORO AIDS PROJECT: $7,500 · OtherBRATTLEBORO AIDS P…FIRST BOOK: $85,000 · EducationFIRST BOOKARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationARIZONA STATE UN…Carlos G Otis Health Care Center: $42,889 · HealthCarlos G Otis …AIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT: $40,000 · HealthAIDS PROJECT O…THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD…
Civil Rights$167,000Arts & Culture$129,613Other$103,331Education$92,500Health$82,889Human Services$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIRST BOOK: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $67,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $64,613 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarlos G Otis Health Care Center: $42,889 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS PROJECT OF SOUTHERN VERMONT: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 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 Ttees Joseph Martinson Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ttees Joseph Martinson Memorial Fund. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 55%
  • Aids Project of Southern Vermont: 55% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–60%
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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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