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The Altamira Foundation at a glance

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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.

$444k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MEducation$1.2MHealth$944kCommunity Improvement$675kArts & Culture$329kHuman Services$130kRecreation & Sports$66kReligion$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $325k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDSTAR - GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$75,000
EAST LAKE INITIATIVE$50,000
SMART FROM THE START$50,000
THE ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER$50,000
THE LEGACY FOUNDATION$50,000
AUGUSTANA FUND$50,000
HALE EDUCATION$25,000
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA$25,000
ROBYN ABRAMS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP$15,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WESTWOOD LAND TRUST$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN$2,500
STEPPINGSTONE$2,000
THRIVE SCHOLARS$2,000
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $60k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 39 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
34

Total granted

$3.2M
$890k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+41%

Still filing today

51%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SF
    SMART FROM THE START INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $370k · revenue +96%
  • TM
    THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $287k · revenue +71%
  • HE
    HALE EDUCATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • BE
    BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +160%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Wheaton College

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
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
10
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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…

Health
11
Western New England University

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…

Education
12
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JCC CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $800,000 · OtherJCC CAPITAL CAMPAIGNAUGUSTANA FUND: $500,000 · OtherAUGUSTANA FUNDCENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP: $280,000 · OtherCENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $125,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $115,000 · OtherROBYN ELISE ABRAMS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP (WESTWOOD): $105,000 · Other+50 more: $885,923 · Other+50 moreRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $700,000 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Char…JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $13,500 · PhilanthropyHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $329,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY…THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $287,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GE…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $41,000 · HealthDana-Farber Ca…+6 more: $23,000 · HealthSMART FROM THE START INC: $370,000 · Human ServicesSMART FRO…HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHEART GAL…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $12,000 · Education+3 more: $1,250 · EducationBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $75,000 · Social ScienceHALE EDUCATION INC: $66,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,010,923Philanthropy$738,500Health$680,000Human Services$420,000Education$163,250Social Science$75,000Recreation & Sports$66,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $700,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC: $370,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $329,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $287,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $66,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetEAST LAKE INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCOLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCLEARWAY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWestwood Land Trust Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST: $12,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $11,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $8,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetWESTWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,250 over 7y, 16% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY HEALTH ED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTWOOD FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TJ2 ROBOTICS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $250 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 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 ALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EAST LAKE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE CHOICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLEARWAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
  • Who funds Westwood Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe John and Gertrude…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Citizens Charitable F…The Weezie Foundation…Hill Crest Foundation…Mike and Gillian Good…Rockland Trust - Blue…Rockland Trust Charit…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…
Boston Foundation IncMA18.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Altamira Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Altamira Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 82 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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