Tennessee · Nonprofit
MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)
MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,343,039 to it, the largest being JEANETTE TRAVIS FOUNDATION ($2,350,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Martin Methodist Foundation (Formerly Martin Methodist College) does
Mission
On july 1, 2021, an asset transfer and transition agreement was made between the college and the university of tennessee. The agreement enabled the university of tennessee to absorb the college's institutional assets and operations for the purpose of establishing a new campus of the university of tennessee at the college's campus to be called the university of tennessee, southern. The general assembly of the state of tennessee approved the new campus and related transactions on april 29, 2021, effective july 1, 2021. The retention and management of the martin methodist college endowmwntby the existing martin methodist college (now martin methodist foundation) nonprofit corporation are to be used for charitable purposes acceptabe to the tennessee conference of the united methodist church.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On july 1, 2021, an asset transfer and transition agreement was made between the college and the university of tennessee. The agreement enabled the university of tennessee to absorb the college's institutional assets and operations for the purpose of establishing a new campus of the university of tennessee at the college's campus to be called the university of tennessee, southern. The general assembly of the state of tennessee approved the new campus and related transactions on april 29, 2021, effective july 1, 2021. During the year ended june 30, 2024, the foundation distributed endowed scholorship grants of $9,583,092.
$9,583,092 spentof which $9,583,092 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,583,092.
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 2021 to 2022, from $36M to $13M (−65%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Richard F Warren
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $443k → $743k.
8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 74% · 2019 73% · 2020 70% · 2021 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 FY2021, 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
86% of MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)'s grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)'s funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)?
- MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) (Tennessee) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,343,039 to it, the largest being JEANETTE TRAVIS FOUNDATION ($2,350,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $3,343,039 in grants to MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE), 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE)?
- JEANETTE TRAVIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTIN METHODIST FOUNDATION (FORMERLY MARTIN METHODIST COLLEGE) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing