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The Alsam Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $392k
- $250k+16 grants · $49M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKAGGS CATHOLIC CENTER LLC | $16,650,237 |
| THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSITUTE | $10,000,000 |
| JUDGE MEMORIAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $4,750,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ZOO BOISE | $2,000,000 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| THE LIVING PLANET | $892,729 |
| SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL | $855,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $750,000 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY | $750,000 |
| SAINT ANDREW CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $516,724 |
| SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL | $490,260 |
| SAINT OLAF SCHOOL | $429,177 |
| WASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $300,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +85% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $37M · revenue +19%
- TLTHE LIVING PLANET INC3× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +92%
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +105%
Funded once
- ISIDAHO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $14M
- MDMATER DEI CATHOLIC HIGHone grant, 2020 · $5.2M
- WUWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $5.0M · revenue -14%
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.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
Northwestern health sciences university prepares and serves the next generation of professionals and leaders to become vital contributors to the delivery and advancement of health care. our mission is accomplished through educational…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Cross Ministries of Utah and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina State. 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 59 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 64 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 THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE ↗
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: McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 The Alsam 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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