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Amerman Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
STILL WATER CAMPS$20,000
EAST-WEST MINISTIRES INTERNATIONAL$20,000
RANSOMED LIFE$6,000
SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$6,000
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN$5,000
HILLSIDE FELLOWSHIP$5,000
UNBOUND NOW$4,000
LOVE AND CARE MINISTRIES$3,000
THE ENGLISH FAMILY RISE SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO$3,000
SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR$3,000
QUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT DBA BEING SONS$3,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$3,000
LAND TO HAND$2,040
CALVARY CHAPEL WHITEFISH$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ransomed Life Inc; 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INCMONTANA LAND TO HAND: $2,040 · Food & NutritionMONTANA LAND TO HANDEast-West Ministries International: $20,000 · ReligionEast-West Ministries I…SOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOOR: $3,000 · ReligionSOUL SURVIVOR OUTDOORSTILL WATER CAMPS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSTILL WATER CAMPS I…SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO CHRIST…HILLSIDE FELLOWSHIP: $5,000 · OtherHILLSIDE FELLOWSHI…QUARRY KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT DBA BEING SONS: $3,000 · OtherQUARRY KINGDOM DEV…CALVARY CHAPEL WHITEFISH INC: $2,000 · OtherCALVARY CHAPEL WHI…YOUTH WITH A MISSION KONA CAMPUS: $1,000 · OtherTHE WELL ABILENE: $1,000 · OtherBEYER CARES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherRANSOMED 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$32,040Religion$23,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Other$19,200Human Services$9,000International$8,000Youth Development$4,000Education$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amerman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amerman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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