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Norman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FNDTN | $2,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS | $2,000 |
| GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT | $200 |
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 (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NGNAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +771%
- AHALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +51%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK3× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CBCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $150k
- JAJIM AND ALICE NORMAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $84k
- TBTHE BLOOD & TIDDUE CENTER FOUNDATIOone grant, 2023 · $13k
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 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.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community
Develop and promote the lifetime sport
To develop the resources to support san antonio regional hospital's mission to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.
The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.
The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CHRIST HEALING CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IT 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Mays Family Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · King Family Foundation · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · McGuire Family Foundation · Circle Bar 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 Norman Family Foundation 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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