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Bm Woltman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$316k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
61
Grants FY2024
61
Organizations funded FY2023
59%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,650
Largest grant, FY2024
$135,000
Organizations funded a year
42 to 61
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$5.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Bm Woltman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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ReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving61$316k41%
FY202361$328k59%
FY202242$354k29%
FY202148$309k52%
FY202049$309kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$957kReligion$659k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concordia Lutheran High School$152,00050%
Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc$24,00040%
Glocal Mission$15,36022%
Vietnamese Lutheran Church$11,2802n/a
Zion Lutheran Church$8,7001n/a
Resurrection Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
Lutheran Student Center of Lubbock$7,6801n/a
Memorial Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
Faith Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
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All grantees of Bm Woltman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concordia Lutheran High School$152,00050%
Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc$24,00040%
Glocal Mission$15,36022%
Vietnamese Lutheran Church$11,2802n/a
Zion Lutheran Church$8,7001n/a
Resurrection Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
Lutheran Student Center of Lubbock$7,6801n/a
Memorial Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
Faith Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church$7,6801n/a
St Mark Lutheran Church$5,4851n/a
Zion Lutheran Church$5,4851n/a
Family of Faith Lutheran Church$5,4851n/a
Distinguished Church of God$5,4851n/a
St John Lutheran Church$5,4851n/a
Christ the King Lutheran Church$5,4851n/a
Bethel Lutheran Church$5,1001n/a
Living Word Lutheran Church$5,1001n/a
St Matthew Lutheran Church of Westfield$5,1001n/a
Dwelling Lutheran Church$3,6001n/a
LINC San Antonio$3,3501n/a
St Paul Lutheran Church$3,3501n/a

Plus 125 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

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.

Thrivent Financial for LutheransMN13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Shell USA Company Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Bm Woltman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bm Woltman Foundation

How much does Bm Woltman Foundation give?
Bm Woltman Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $315,610 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Bm Woltman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Religion (41%).
Who are Bm Woltman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Concordia Lutheran High School ($152k), Lutheran Outdoors Ministry of Texas Inc ($24k), Glocal Mission ($15k).
Does Bm Woltman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bm Woltman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bm Woltman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Shell USA Company Foundation, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing.
Where is Bm Woltman Foundation based?
Bm Woltman Foundation is based in TX.

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 147 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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