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Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn

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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
69
Grants FY2024
56
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
41 to 57
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$26M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $767k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving60$4.0M15%
FY202356$3.3M18%
FY202250$3.1M30%
FY202143$2.4M12%
FY202041$1.5M15%
FY201946$1.4M26%
FY201855$749k16%
FY201757$731kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$5.5MEducation$4.2MInternational$3.1MHealth$1.4MReligion$766kPhilanthropy$682kFood & Nutrition$572kArts & Culture$551kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington State University Foundation$1,995,00031%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,350,00080%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,120,00080%
Uc San Diego Foundation$1,100,00030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$970,00080%
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive$750,000455%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$500,00010%
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$415,00033%
Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship$370,0008n/a
National Tropical Botanical Garden$358,00031%
Merwin Conservancy Inc$354,000426%
The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation$300,00036%
Buddhist Global Relief a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$300,00036%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$260,00080%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$220,00030%
The Food Depot$220,00080%
Autistry Studios Incorporated$200,00047%
Santa Fe Conservation Trust$200,00083%
World Connect Inc$200,00025%
St Vincent Hospital Foundation$190,00053%
The Trust for Public Land$190,00060%
Health in Harmony$175,00031%
Canticle Farm$170,00086%
San Francisco Zen Center$159,0008n/a
Tsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation$155,00064%
Kindle Project$150,00013%
Kitchen Angels Inc$145,00082%
Rainforest Action Network$145,00080%
Tibet Fund Inc$139,85031%
Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc$103,000217%
Punching Out Parkinsons Santa Fe$97,000725%
The Four Corners Institute$80,000380%
Conservation Legacy$78,00030%
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance$75,00081%
Alliance for the Earth$71,000813%
Lama Foundation$70,00084%
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc$70,00080%
Amigos Bravos Inc$70,00081%
Pundarika Foundation$60,5006n/a
Upper Gila Watershed Alliance$50,000815%
The Storydancer Project Inc$47,50079%
Site Santa Fe$42,00080%
New Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute$40,00070%
New Mexico Appleseed$35,00044%
Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute$27,00051%
Las Cumbres Community Services$25,00010%
SOURCE Studio Inc$25,00018%
Coexistence Story Inc$25,00037%
New Mexico Community Capital$25,00011%
Heart of Ganesh$25,000312%
Elephant Aid International$25,0003n/a
Think New Mexico$25,00051%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$25,00011%
Honey for Good$25,000160%
G L a S Foundation$21,0004n/a
Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation$20,00021%
Oceana Inc$20,00010%
Theater Grottesco North America Inc$18,50053%
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance$17,00040%
Solutions Project Inc$15,00011%
Sonoma Mountain Zen Center$15,0003n/a
New Mexico Environmental Law Center$15,0002n/a
The City and Country School Inc$12,00030%
Coming Home Connection$10,00013%
Spirit Rock Meditation Center$8,0002n/a
Cancer Foundation for New Mexico$7,00020%
The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc$7,00030%
Zen Hospice Project Dba Zen Caregiving Project$6,00020%
Jubilee Justice Inc$5,00010%
Scott's House Inc$5,00012%
Upaya Zen Center Inc$5,0001n/a
The Maha Bodhi Society of Santa Fe$5,0001n/a
Felix Gillet Institute$5,000112%
Impact a Village Inc$5,0001n/a
Riverdale Country School Inc$4,00020%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$4,00020%
Santa Fe Institute$4,00020%
Maitri$4,0002n/a
Reel Fathers Ltd$4,00012%
Biosphere Foundation Formerly Planetary Coral Reef Foundation$2,50011%
Dragons Leap$2,0002n/a
Santa Fe Jazz$1,2001n/a
Scopa Has a Dream Inc Dba Corazon Healdsburg$1,00010%
Community Palliative Care of Northern New Mexico$1,0001n/a
Friends of the Santa Fe River$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington State University Foundation: $1,995,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,350,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $1,120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $1,100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $970,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetArchangel Ancient Tree Archive: $750,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $415,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetNational Tropical Botanical Garden: $358,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMerwin Conservancy Inc: $354,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetBuddhist Global Relief a Nj Nonprofit Corporation: $300,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $260,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Depot: $220,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAutistry Studios Incorporated: $200,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSanta Fe Conservation Trust: $200,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetWorld Connect Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital Foundation: $190,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCanticle Farm: $170,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetTsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation: $155,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetKindle Project: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKitchen Angels Inc: $145,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $145,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $139,850 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFlowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc: $103,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetPunching Out Parkinsons Santa Fe: $97,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetThe Four Corners Institute: $80,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetConservation Legacy: $78,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Mexico Wilderness Alliance: $75,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetAlliance for the Earth: $71,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetLama Foundation: $70,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetThe Grand Canyon Trust Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos Bravos Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetUpper Gila Watershed Alliance: $50,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetThe Storydancer Project Inc: $47,500 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetSite Santa Fe: $42,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNew Mexico School for the Arts - Arts Institute: $40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNew Mexico Appleseed: $35,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSanta Fe Farmers Market Institute: $27,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLas Cumbres Community Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOURCE Studio Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCoexistence Story Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNew Mexico Community Capital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHeart of Ganesh: $25,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetThink New Mexico: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

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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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM51.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · Bolene Charitable Trust · Livingry Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Anchorum St Vincent · Brindle 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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About Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn

How much does Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn give?
Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn reported 69 grants totaling $4,101,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Education (24%), International (18%).
Who are Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington State University Foundation ($2.0M), International Rescue Committee INC ($1.4M), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($1.1M).
Does Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Frost Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn based?
Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn is based in NM.

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 129 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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