· Private foundation
The Altamira 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDSTAR - GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| THE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| SMART FROM THE START | $50,000 |
| EAST LAKE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| AUGUSTANA FUND | $50,000 |
| HALE EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| ROBYN ABRAMS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WESTWOOD LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN | $2,500 |
| WBUR | $2,000 |
| WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 21 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- SFSMART FROM THE START INC8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +96%
- TMTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2017–2024 · $287k · revenue +71%
- HEHALE EDUCATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $200k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2023 · $125k
- BEBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +160%
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 mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Education and Research
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westwood Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 82 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARWAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LAKE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds Westwood Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The John and Gertrude Donovan Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Weezie Foundation Xxxxx0005 · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
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 Altamira 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Clearway School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.