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Amerman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES$30,000
EAST-WEST MINISTIRES INTERNATIONAL$20,000
STILL WATER CAMPS$20,000
RANSOMED LIFE$6,000
SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$6,000
HILLSIDE FELLOWSHIP$5,000
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN$5,000
UNBOUND NOW$4,000
LOVE AND CARE MINISTRIES$3,000
SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR$3,000
QUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT DBA BEING SONS$3,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$3,000
THE ENGLISH FAMILY RISE SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO$3,000
LAND TO HAND$2,040
CALVARY CHAPEL WHITEFISH$2,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOVE AND CARE MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%RANSOMED LIFE: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Still Water Christian Ministries Inc

To offer Kingdom partners a holy and unforgettable experience at our Texas Hill Country retreat and camp facility highlighting the still waters of God's majestic creation.

Recreation & Sports
2
Thrive Ministries Inc

Faith-based education and care of children

Education
3
Lilyfield Inc

Lilyfield is a christ-centered ministry devoted to providing healthy families for at-risk children and youth.

Human Services
4
Life Christian Academy Inc

Life christian academy provides christian-based care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5th grade. it is a private, christian preschool and school.

Education
5
Star Rock Ministries

Star Rock Ministries partners with donors and organizations to gift Christ-centered camp experiences that grow faith, relationships, character, and life skills to youth from under-resourced communities and the U.S. Military. Star Rock…

Youth Development
6
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
7
Youth Conference Ministries Inc

To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.

Youth Development
8
South Central Minnesota Youth for Christ Inc

Reaching out to young people everywhere to raise up life-long followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement.

Youth Development
9
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
10
Still Waters Christian Boarding School

Ministry provides a spiritual healing ministry for troubled and delinquent children, and quality academic education.

Education
11
Arborbrook Christian Academy

Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Education
12
Servenow

Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ransomed Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is The English Family Rise School of San Antonio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INCEast-West Ministries International — $20,000 · ReligionEast-West Ministries I…SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR — $3,000 · ReligionSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOORSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $6,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIA…HILLSIDE FELLOWSHIP — $5,000 · OtherHILLSIDE FELLOWSHIPQUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT DBA BEING SONS — $3,000 · OtherQUARRY KINGDOM DEVEL…LAND TO HAND — $2,040 · OtherLAND TO HANDCALVARY CHAPEL WHITEFISH INC — $2,000 · OtherCALVARY CHAPEL WHITE…YOUTH WITH A MISSION KONA CAMPUS — $1,000 · OtherTHE WELL ABILENE — $1,000 · OtherBEYER CARES FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Other+1 more — $200 · OtherSTILL WATER CAMPS INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSTILL WATER CAMPS I…RANSOMED LIFE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesLove & Care Ministries — $3,000 · Human ServicesALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $3,000 · InternationalUNBOUND NOW — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ENGLISH FAMILY RISE SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $3,000 · Education
Food & Nutrition$30,000Religion$23,000Other$21,240Recreation & Sports$20,000Human Services$9,000International$8,000Youth Development$4,000Education$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Amerman Family 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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