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· Public charity
FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION
To help people to better their lives and businesses.
$43k
Granted FY2024
1
Grants
1
Communities
$38k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$485kEducation$36kHealth$26kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$9kHuman Services$8kOther$86k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
experienceparks
2019
children'sfostereducational
2020
children'sstudentsfostereducationaldonationshealth
2021
san antonio'sstudentseducationalteacherhealth
2022
sustainabilityfoundation's furtherfurther educationeducation teacherteacher trainingtraining healthhealth wellness
2023
srhcchealth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$37,632
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
- FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$37,632
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$528k · 6 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
12
Total granted
$528k
$131k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+100%
+52%
Still filing today
100%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyEducationHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
- FCFIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $301k · revenue +5817% · 100% of their budget
- SASAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +100%
- NENORTH EAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $27k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SASAN ANTONIO ISDone grant, 2020 · $17k
- SASAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue +11%
- SASAN ANTONIO CHAMBERone grant, 2020 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
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Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation Inc
The Santa Fe Texas Education Foundation CULTIVATES and NURTURES the culture of generosity in our community, IGNITES exemplary experiences for every student and teacher, and INSPIRES the achievement of lifelong success.
Education
2
Houston Independent School District
The HISD Foundation supports Houston Independent School District's schools and programs.
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3
Cuero Isd Education Foundation
Raise funds to fund educational grants to Cuero ISD educators and scholarships to Cuero ISD graduates.
Education
4
San Luis Coastal Education Foundation
Strengthen community partnerships and investment for the benefit of san luis coastal unified school district.
Education
5
Communities in Schools of San Antonio
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Education
6
Pasadena Isd Education Foundation
The mission of the pasadena isd education foundation is to collaborate with the school district and community to reward innovative teaching, promote educational excellence, and provide opportunities to recognize the students and staff of…
Education
7
San Antonio Medical Foundation
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improve health care, advance biomedical science, and provide leadership & active stewardship of our land and other assets.
Health
8
Corsicana Isd Education Foundation Inc
Promote achievement in education
Education
9
South San Antonio Isd Educational Foundation
To foster community involvement in innovative educational programs and other resources to provide enrichment to the students of the South San Antonio ISD.
Education
10
Fiesta San Antonio Foundation
The Fiesta San Antonio Foundation supports programs,events and non-profit organizations that create a safe,healthy and educational Fiesta. We preserve the history,culture and heritage of San Antonio and positively impact economic…
Human Services
11
San Antonio Report
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
Arts & Culture
12
Aledo Isd Education Foundation
The aledo isd education foundation partners with the community to provide private resources to enrich teaching, inspire learning, and maximize innovative opportunities for all students in the aledo independent school district.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Area Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$485,108Other$86,244Education$36,273Health$25,500Public Benefit$10,000Arts & Culture$8,800Human Services$7,500
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 FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAISD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDSON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILENE RESEARCH INSITITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE DOSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SER ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
San Antonio Area FoundationTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · The Charity Ball Association Of · Spurs Give · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 59.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 842953607 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Firstmark Credit Union?
Find your warmest path to Firstmark Credit Union through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines