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Vern A & Florence E Martin Charitable TA at a glance

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Vern A & Florence E Martin Charitable TA

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.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$331kEducation$329kHealth$87kYouth Development$75kHuman Services$39kAnimals$8kInternational$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC$24,047
LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOL$15,675
ENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC$9,459
LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOL$7,181
LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOL$6,840
ENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC$5,698
PENTWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,698
ENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC$4,673
ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC$4,673
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CENTENARY$4,559
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF THE SUNCOAS$4,559
ENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC$3,419
LOVELAND CENTER INC$3,419
ENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC$2,963
LEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $5k → 9%ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $5k → 9%ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $5k → 9%ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $5k → 9%ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $4k → 9%ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $4k → 9%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 23 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +205% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
2

Total granted

$1.0M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+205%
+2%

Still filing today

26%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • EH
    ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +205%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue ×56
  • LC
    LOVELAND CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +621%

Funded once

  • Children First Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +2%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTHEAST INCORPO
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENGLEWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC: $276,536 · OtherENGLEWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INCLEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOL: $237,162 · OtherLEMON BAY HIGH SCHOOLENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INC: $100,518 · OtherENGLEWOOD METHODIST CHURCH INCPENTWATER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $42,907 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $34,328 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH CENTENARY: $34,328 · Other+14 more: $205,898 · Other+14 moreENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $35,187 · Human ServicesDOLLARS FOR MAMMOGRAMS INC: $18,021 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC: $17,104 · Youth DevelopmentSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $9,441 · AnimalsChildren First Inc: $4,331 · Education
Other$931,677Human Services$35,187Philanthropy$18,021Youth Development$17,104Animals$9,441Education$4,331

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC: $35,187 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $34,328 over 8y, 17% of budgetLOVELAND CENTER INC: $25,745 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDOLLARS FOR MAMMOGRAMS INC: $18,021 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC: $17,104 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $9,441 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren First Inc: $4,331 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 ENGLEWOOD HELPING HAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS FOUNDATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVELAND CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DOLLARS FOR MAMMOGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
  • Who funds Children First 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.

Gulf Coast Community …The Community Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Vern A & Florence E Martin Charitable TA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vern A & Florence E Martin Charitable TA. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
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 25 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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