· Public charity
Firstmark Credit Union
To help people to better their lives and businesses.
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.
The 1 grants below total $37,632 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $42,632 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $37,632 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FCFIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $301k · revenue +485% · 100% of their budget
- NENORTHSIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +5%
- NENORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $27k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SASan Antonio Independent School Districtone grant, 2020 · $17k
- SASAN ANTONIO EDUCATION FUND DBA SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -7%
- 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.
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.
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.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Fort Bend I.S.D. Education Foundation's mission is to enrich and enhance the quality of education for all Fort Bend Independent School District students through grant programs.
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…
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
Partner with public and private sectors to support creative and innovative programs for the benefit of students of the san luis coastal unified school district in the areas of academics, arts, career technical education, extra-curricular…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
The SCUC ISD Education Foundation raises and awards funds for innovating teaching grants that enable students to have more educational opportunities that would other be unfunded.
The Foundation's mission is to rally our entire community to raise the critical funds necessary for continuing Highland Park ISD's tradition of exemplary education.
To enhance the education opportunities for corpus christi independent school district (ccisd) student by soliciting, managing, and distributing funds for enrichment purposes in program areas not otherwise funded by the ccisd.
The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.
Represent public education employees in labor related matters, to include matters specific to wages, hours, and thier condition of employment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Parks Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 FIRSTMARK CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION FUND DBA SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds FILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDSON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: Spurs Give · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Nustar Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd 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 organization 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.
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.
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