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Randy Ortanez Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MReligion$100kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$500Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
$102,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$120k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION$102,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST JOSEPH'S FAMILY CENTER: $500 → 8%NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTER: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN AMERICA FOUNDATION: $840 → 8%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%FRIENDS OF SOLDIERS MEMORIAL FIELDS: $5k → 6%TOYS FOR TOTS: $1k → 7%ST LOUIS CHURCH: $22k → 6%MARYLAND SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION INC: $100 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND: $500 → 11%CARE FOR ALS INC: $500 → 13%CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION: $50k → 19%NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTER: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN AMERICA FOUNDATION: $650 → 8%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%TOYS FOR TOTS: $500 → 7%ST LOUIS CHURCH: $12k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $350k → 11%GRACE LIFE CHURCH: $250 → 19%ST LOUIS CHURCH: $6k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $280k → 11%ROLAND PARK ANNUAL FUND: $10k → 19%FIFTH DISTRICT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $100 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $263k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100 → 19%HOWARD COUNTY FOOD BANK: $500 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $263k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $500 → 19%HOWARD COUNTY FOOD BANK: $500 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $103k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $500 → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $63k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%BISHOP MCNAMARA HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 11%BISHOP MCNAMARA HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
PA
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$1.9M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%
+33%

Still filing today

44%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +145%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +59%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATI
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • RP
    ROLAND PARK ANNUAL FUND INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SOLDIERS MEMORIAL FIELDS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
2
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
4
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roland Park Annual Fund Incorporated. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION — $1,845,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CP FOUNDATION+13 more — $109,150 · Other+13 moreROLAND PARK ANNUAL FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $5,000 · EducationMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,500 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATI — $1,490 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthCARE FOR ALS INC — $500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER — $500 · Food & NutritionSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $500 · Recreation & SportsKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC — $500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,954,650Education$15,000Philanthropy$2,990Health$2,600Food & Nutrition$1,500Recreation & Sports$500Community Improvement$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROLAND PARK ANNUAL FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATI — $1,490 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE FOR ALS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIFTH DISTRICT VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Randy Ortanez Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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