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Alvarado Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,100 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $8,200 |
| MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,200 |
| HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,250 |
| OVERTURE CENTER | $2,000 |
| MADISON OPERA | $1,950 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| HPCSA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $300 |
| WI HISTORICAL CENTER | $250 |
| FORWARD THEATER COMPANY | $250 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $250 |
| KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $217 |
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 (FY17–18, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +41%
- MOMADISON OPERA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2021 · $11k
- DCDANE COUNTY UNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OFOPERATION FRESH START INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +116%
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.
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We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
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Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bird Rock Foundation Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 110 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 MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds Opera for the Young Inc ↗
- Who funds KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds Bird Rock Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FORWARD THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun · United Way of Dane County Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Hooper Corp Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc
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 Alvarado Family Foundation Inc 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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