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McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$858k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$101k24%
FY202416$141k38%
FY202317$123k35%
FY202215$96k13%
FY202115$59k13%
FY202012$57k25%
FY201916$55k44%
FY201811$59k45%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$372kEnvironment$251kHealth$95kArts & Culture$45kRecreation & Sports$11kFood & Nutrition$11kHuman Services$11kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
PA
CA
CO
NM
NC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHigh Line Canal Conservancy: $246,250 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetAlliance for Choice in Education: $140,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRaft(Resource Area for Teaching)Colorado: $50,900 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetDenver Children's Home: $50,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRegis University: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGraland Country Day School: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCentral City Opera House Association: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNiman Ranch Next Generation Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetValpo Surf Project Inc: $9,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWomen's Bean Project: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetComeback Yoga: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSwitch Energy Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClothes to Kids of Denver Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEast High Angel Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Liv Project: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Park Hill Community Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSportswomen of Colorado Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Symphony Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out and Read Colorado: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Friendship Bridge: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Waters International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Pave Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 29.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO32.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Ima Foundation · Eliot Charitable Trust · LARRK Foundation · Robert E & Anne T Sneed Aka Family 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 McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation

How much does McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation give?
McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $100,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Environment (30%), Health (11%).
Who are McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: High Line Canal Conservancy ($246k), Alliance for Choice in Education ($140k), Raft(Resource Area for Teaching)Colorado ($51k).
Does McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation 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 McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
Where is McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation based?
McDermott Family Foundation Dba Altira Foundation is based in CO.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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