· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k23 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSD FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $625,000 |
| OCCIDENTAL ARTS & ECOLOGY CENTER | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $200,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $150,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $150,000 |
| ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE | $150,000 |
| THE TIBET FUND | $103,600 |
| WORLD CONNECT | $100,000 |
| KINDLE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| THE CULTURAL CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF | $100,000 |
| THE MERWIN CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $75,000 |
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, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +81%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +41%- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +34%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -47%- WCWORLD CONNECT BEE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $100k
- KPKINDLE PROJECT CO COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION - AFGHANISTAN FUNDone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Advance the well- being of mountain people and conservation of mountain environments.
The santa fe botanical garden celebrates, cultivates and conserves the rich botanical heritage and biodiversity of our region. in partnership with nature, we demonstrate our commitment through education, science, conservation, community…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
82 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. 82 of the 129 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 WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHANGEL ANCIENT TREE ARCHIVE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MERWIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds AUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORLD CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
- Who funds Canticle Farm ↗
- Who funds TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDLE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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: 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
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 Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn 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.