· Private foundation
DDM Foundation
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Antonio Pets Alive | $235,500 |
| San Antonio Area Foundation | $215,000 |
| Girls on the Run | $130,000 |
| University of Redlands | $125,000 |
| Housing First Community Coalition | $125,000 |
| Interfaith Welcome Coalition | $100,000 |
| House of Neighborly Service | $100,000 |
| Texas Impact Education Fund | $100,000 |
| Texas Gun Sense | $75,000 |
| Spay-Neuter Assistance Program | $60,000 |
| They Have a Right to Live | $43,000 |
| Christian Assistance Ministry | $25,000 |
| Dizzy Dog Animal Rescue | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| SA Hope Center | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS8× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +3%
- SASan Antonio Pets Alive Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $774k · revenue +68%
- GOGirls on the Run of Bexar County7× · 2017–2023 · $745k · revenue +76% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- BCBURTON CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LGLANDA GARDENS CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +93%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.
To prevent the overpopulation of cats and dogs by funding spay and neuter services for domestic animals owned by the residents of San Antonio and Bexar County. To develop, promote, and sponsor programs of education to encourage better…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Rescue and place abandoned and unwanted pets. Provide low cost spay / neuter. Provide low-cost microchips. Provide community education.
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
We own and operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic. Our purpose is to end animal cruelty in Texas, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and end the dumping and abandonment of cats and dogs. We also have an education program to teach Texas residents…
Fix West Texas mission is to lower the local euthanasia rate dogs and cats put to sleep in our local shelter due to lack of space and to lower intakes number of dogs and cats taken in by the local shelter and local rescues in our West…
Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…
Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
Shelter, food and veterniary care provided for animals in a clean shelter environment. this is a no-kill facility. animals are neutered, vaccinated, microchipped prior to being adopted. every effort is made to educate the community about…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Puentes De Cristo INc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Pets Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds House of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas ↗
- Who funds HFCC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS IMPACT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Texas Gun Sense ↗
- Who funds LANDA GARDENS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIZZY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Puentes De Cristo INc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Genevieve & Ward Orsinger Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · San Antonio Food Bank
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 DDM 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.