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Alterman Foundation
The foundation supports local charities in the community, especially in times of need such as hurricanes or other natural disasters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $112,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $126,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS | $14,000 |
| CORAZON MINISTRIES | $14,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO | $14,000 |
| WILSON COUNTY NO KILL ANIMAL SHELTER | $14,000 |
| PAWSITIVE RESCUERS OF EL PASO | $14,000 |
| ARMS OF HOPE | $14,000 |
| SILVER SAGE HILL COUNTRY RESOURCE CENTER | $14,000 |
| ALAMO CITY HOUSE RABBITS | $14,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +123% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CMCorazon Ministries Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +123%
- WCWILSON COUNTY ADOPTION AND RESCUE SERVICES3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +40%
- AOARMS OF HOPE2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- OFOPERATION FINALLY HOMEone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue -24%
- TFTEXAS FIREWALKERSone grant, 2023 · $16k
- ZIZAPATOS INCone grant, 2023 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the rose is saving lives through quality breast health services, advocacy and access to care for all.
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
To honor, directly help and improve the quality of life of wounded warriors and their families who are recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, TX.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…
Rescue Texas Resources is a foster based, 501c3 rescue group operating throughout Texas and in partnership with other rescue organizations. We were established to respond to the extreme number of at-risk dogs that need help from our…
The National Memorial Ladies is a volunteer military funeral service for the purpose of ensuring that no soldier is buried alone. In addition, we supply monuments and flowers for each gravesite. We honorably attend the services for of our…
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
This organization has provided rescue for hundreds of Boston Terriers from owner surrenders and pulling dogs from local animal shelters, provided vet care to ensure they are in good health, and adopted them out to new families/owners. We…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boles Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Traprs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Corazon Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY ADOPTION AND RESCUE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
- Who funds ARMS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE TRAPRS ↗
- Who funds ALAMO BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HEROES TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINK WARRIOR ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Saving a Hero's Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds THE ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds BANDERA COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING ↗
- Who funds GUNNER THAMES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AID THE SILENT ↗
- Who funds BOLES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alterman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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