A private family foundation · Since 2016

Quiet, local giving.

A private family foundation supporting health, faith & community, housing & hunger, and education across the Bay Area, Napa Valley, and beyond.

Partners are invited directly. The foundation does not accept unsolicited applications or outside donations.

By the numbers

A decade of giving — kept plain and accountable on the books.

What we support

Partners are invited; the foundation does not accept unsolicited applications or outside donations.

i.
Health
Funding research, patient care, and access to medicine — locally rooted at UCSF and Cancer League, globally extended through partners working in trafficking recovery and frontline medicine.
ii.
Faith Community
Supporting the churches, missions, and civic institutions that David and Susan loved — from their home parish in St. Helena to global discipleship programs and community guardians like the Lake Tahoe stewards and California Fire Foundation.
iii.
Housing Hunger
Partnering with shelters, food banks, and rebuilders working to keep neighbors housed and fed — concentrated in Oakland, San Francisco, the East Bay, and Napa.
iv.
Education
Backing schools and programs that meet kids where they are — from independent classrooms to community college pipelines and after-school programs serving under-resourced students.

In memory of

David and Susan Martin.

Established by their daughters to continue the philanthropic practice that defined their parents’ lives — personal, persistent, and rarely public.