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Tuw Margaret L Martin Char Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

Tuw Margaret L Martin Char Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$557k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.3MArts & Culture$340kReligion$262kPhilanthropy$114kScience & Tech$80kYouth Development$76kCommunity Improvement$16kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE HINESVILLE ARTS COUNCIL$41,160
FLEMINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$41,160
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$30,000
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$25,000
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE$24,303
MIDWAY MUSEUM INC$24,303
MIDWAY CHURCH AND SOCIETY$24,303
LECONTE-WOODMANSTON FOUNDATION INC$18,684
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF SAVANNAH$15,875
COASTAL EMPIRE COUNCIL BSA$15,875
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY$15,000
MERCER UNIVERSITY$15,000
SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%LIVE OAK PUB LIBRARY-LIBERTYCNTY: $20k → 14%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%COASTAL EMPIRE COUNCIL BSA: $16k → 16%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $35k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $135k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $50k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $20k → 13%LIBERTY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16k → 14%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 18%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $30k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $130k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $40k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 13%LIBERTY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16k → 14%VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $25k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $110k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $30k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%LIBERTY CNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 14%SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $18k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $115k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $15k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $90k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $100k → 27%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $15k → 23%GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $68k → 24%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $85k → 27%MIDWAY CHURCH AND SOCIETY: $24k → 14%MIDWAY MUSEUM INC: $24k → 14%LECONTE-WOODMANSTON FOUNDATION INC: $19k → 14%GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF SAVANNAH: $16k → 16%MIDWAY CHURCH AND SOCIETY: $16k → 14%MIDWAY CHURCH AND SOCIETY: $16k → 14%MIDWAY MUSEUM INC: $16k → 14%MIDWAY MUSEUM INC: $16k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
KY
VA
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 46 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
9

Total granted

$3.1M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-2%

Still filing today

28%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +19%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +159%
  • MM
    MIDWAY MUSEUM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +0% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • LS
    LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • MU
    MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • PU
    PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +1%
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
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
7
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
8
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
11
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
12
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spelman College; the most unlike its peers is Fort Valley State College National Alumni Association Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $632,500 · OtherGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $420,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATHE HINESVILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $182,877 · OtherTHE HINESVILLE ARTS COUNCILKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $180,000 · OtherKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITYFLEMINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $176,977 · OtherFLEMINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+38 more: $970,572 · Other+38 moreTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $137,500 · EducationTHE CORPORATIO…Emory University: $50,000 · EducationEmory Universi…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…Savannah College of Art and DesignInc: $30,000 · EducationSavannah Colle…Spelman College: $25,000 · EducationSpelman Colleg…WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationWESLEYAN COLLE…EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · EducationEdward Waters University Inc: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $20,000 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc: $20,000 · Education+4 more: $25,000 · Education+4 moreUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $89,858 · PhilanthropyMIDWAY MUSEUM: $84,858 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,562,926Education$407,500Philanthropy$89,858Arts & Culture$84,858

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 budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY: $137,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE: $89,858 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMIDWAY MUSEUM: $84,858 over 6y, 33% of budgetEmory University: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN COLLEGE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEdward Waters University Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE ↗
  • Who funds MIDWAY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Edward Waters University Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORT VALLEY STATE COLLEGE NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tuw Margaret L Martin Char Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tuw Margaret L Martin Char Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Edward Waters University Inc: 15% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% 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)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 59 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home