Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MARTHA'S TABLE INC
MARTHA'S TABLE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 375 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,718,246 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,828,609). 218 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 375
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $68M
What Martha's Table Inc does
Mission
Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Martha's table's health & wellness initiatives increase access to healthy food and support children and their families in making healthy choices. Through these initiatives, martha's table offers nutritious prepared meals and healthy groceries at no cost. Meals prepared onsite for its education programs meet or exceed government nutritional standards. Mckenna's wagon, martha's table's mobile food truck, serves warm meals seven days a week to individuals experiencing hunger or housing instability. Martha's table continues to engage with the community to offer resources to address and reduce stigmas around mental health. Services include one-on-one, group sessions and larger events including healthy happy hours. (see schedule o) martha's table also provides healthy groceries at no cost through regular markets at more than 50 sites in washington, d.c., including elementary schools in wards 7 and 8, community centers, and at its own facilities.
$8,449,786 spentof which $75,000 as grants35% of program spendingMartha's table's education initiatives support children and young adults with high-quality learning experiences that help them thrive from cradle to career. Martha's table offers nationally accredited, comprehensive early childhood education programs for infants and toddlers ages six weeks to four years. Its curriculum promotes whole child development -focusing on physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development - to ensure children are on track and ready to learn in pre-kindergarten and beyond. To support older youth, martha's table partners with urban alliance on a workforce readiness training program for high school students. Students participate in weekly job training workshops starting their freshman year. By senior year, they are placed in nine-month, paid, professional internships. (see schedule o) martha's table continues with global passport, a program offering no-cost regional and international experiential learning opportunities for high-school age youth (ages 14 to 19).
$7,977,303 spentof which $1,500 as grants$126,744 earned by the program33% of program spendingMartha's table's parent & family initiatives help ensure caregivers are deeply supported as they serve as their children's first and most important teachers. These initiatives support parents outside of the classroom through regular family visits throughout the first two years of their child's life. Martha's table also offers a family resource center, parent cafes, and training programs that help parents achieve their personal goals. Other initiatives include the cash assistance programs in partnership with several organizations and the district of columbia government. District dads supports community fathers and father figures through parental support workshops. (see schedule o)additionally, martha's outfitters, martha's table's no-cost community boutique, offers free access to baby items, including bottles and diapers, as well as children's and professional clothing for families.
$6,741,958 spentof which $1,759,469 as grants$26,920 earned by the program28% of program spendingNeighborhood impact initiatives: throughout all its work, martha's table is guided by its belief that neighborhood matters. Martha's table has invested in a place-based strategy, which will direct resources to overcome complex and systemic social, physical, and economic factors that have historically limited its community's success. Neighborhoods influence access to resources that are critical for life success. With this belief, martha's table invests deeply in the neighborhoods surrounding its headquarters in southeast d.c., and its community development team works in partnership with local residents to identify and prioritize opportunities to increase access to essential resources in their community. Martha's table initiated the community impact fund, a philanthropic initiative for grassroots organizations in ward 8.
$1,078,412 spentof which $650,332 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,247,459.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $45M to $69M (+54%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 6% · 2020 23% · 2021 32% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% · 2024 24% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MARTHA'S TABLE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tiffany Williams
President & CEO
Board chair
Ken Bacon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 128 funders, grant income rose $3.1M → $5.2M.
39 of 375 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $750k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Goldberg Family Foundation 217-48576810). These are real filings, and they are not money MARTHA'S TABLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MARTHA'S TABLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 375 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MARTHA'S TABLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARTHA'S TABLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 18% · 2019 16% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of MARTHA'S TABLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MARTHA'S TABLE INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MARTHA'S TABLE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MARTHA'S TABLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MARTHA'S TABLE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Martha's Table Hillsdale LLC · disregarded
- Martha's Table So Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC?
- MARTHA'S TABLE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 375 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,718,246 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($6,828,609). 218 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARTHA'S TABLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 375 organizations giving $46,718,246 in grants to MARTHA'S TABLE INC, 218 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTHA'S TABLE INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $6,828,609 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTHA'S TABLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 375 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing