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Norman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$4,000
ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$4,000
ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FNDTN$2,000
SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS$2,000
GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $10k → 16%PATHWAYS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $300 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143k · 22 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
31

Total granted

$143k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NG
    NAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +771%
  • AH
    ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +51%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    3× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • JA
    JIM AND ALICE NORMAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $84k
  • TB
    THE BLOOD & TIDDUE CENTER FOUNDATIO
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
2
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
3
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
4
Greater Satx

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.

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5
San Antonio Report

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
7
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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8
Texas a&M San Antonio Foundation

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

Education
9
San Antonio Tennis Association

Develop and promote the lifetime sport

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10
San Antonio Hospital Foundation Inc

To develop the resources to support san antonio regional hospital's mission to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.

Health
11
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

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.

Environment
12
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER: $150,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTERJIM AND ALICE NORMAN FOUNDATION: $84,185 · OtherJIM AND ALICE NORMAN FOUNDATIONROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO: $25,624 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIOST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $19,500 · OtherNAMI GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $16,000 · OtherTHE BLOOD & TIDDUE CENTER FOUNDATIO: $13,000 · Other+35 more: $76,550 · Other+35 moreSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $20,350 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,100 · Arts & CultureTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $19,930 · InternationalSOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER: $14,000 · HealthTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,200 · Health+2 more: $800 · HealthALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationThe University of Texas Law School Foundation: $3,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $500 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesCHRIST HEALING CENTER MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Religion
Other$384,859Arts & Culture$21,450International$19,930Health$16,000Education$10,500Human Services$10,300Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $19,930 over 3y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CHRIST HEALING CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
  • 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 THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
  • Who funds Witte Museum ↗
  • Who funds BELIEVE IT FOUNDATION ↗

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 Foun…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Faye L & William L Co…Charitable Foundation…Mays Family FoundationHarvey E Najim Charit…King Family FoundationCb and Anita Branch T…McGuire Family Founda…Circle Bar Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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