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Norman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 21
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$138k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Norman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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 arriving5$12k40%
FY202418$30k28%
FY20232$14k100%
FY202221$12k48%
FY202114$101k64%
FY202011$41k91%
FY20185$15k40%
FY201715$229kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$167kPhilanthropy$84kEducation$65kHealth$49kInternational$46kReligion$32kCommunity Improvement$9kArts & Culture$7kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rotary Club of San Antonio$25,62424%
San Antonio Public Library Foundation$20,35020%
St Davids Episcopal Church$19,5004n/a
Nami Greater San Antonio$16,00026%
South Texas Blood & Tissue Center$14,00020%
Christ Healing Center Ministries$10,00012%
The Children's Shelter$10,00010%
San Antonio Academy of Texas$7,50050%
Alamo Heights School Foundation$6,50030%
San Antonio Food Bank$5,75030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($293k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRotary Club of San Antonio: $25,624 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSan Antonio Public Library Foundation: $20,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNami Greater San Antonio: $16,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSouth Texas Blood & Tissue Center: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Healing Center Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Children's Shelter: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Academy of Texas: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlamo Heights School Foundation: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Food Bank: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of San Antonio Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy: $1,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Zoological Society: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThrivewell Cancer Foundation: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels San Antonio: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWitte Museum: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelieve It Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of San Antonio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of San Antonio (Audit): $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPathways Youth and Family Services Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoli Chamber Ensemble: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Great Springs Project Inc (Audit): $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Bar Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Bar Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVilla Finale Museum & Gardens: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX39.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Norman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Norman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Norman Family Foundation

How much does Norman Family Foundation give?
Norman Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $12,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Norman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Philanthropy (18%), Education (14%).
Who are Norman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rotary Club of San Antonio ($26k), San Antonio Public Library Foundation ($20k), St Davids Episcopal Church ($20k).
Does Norman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Norman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Norman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
Where is Norman Family Foundation based?
Norman Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 56 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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