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The Amparo Foundation at a glance

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The Amparo 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$4.1MHealth$2.1MHuman Services$1.6MFood & Nutrition$175kPhilanthropy$154k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
$160,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC$1,500,000
FRAZIER REVITALIZATION INC$1,050,000
FRAZIER REVITALIZATION INC$160,000
SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS$98,284
AMERICAN CLEFT PALATE-CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION$70,000
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 (FY20–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $25k → 5%PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC: $1.5M → 15%MERCY CHEFS INC: $400k → 20%PATHWAYS ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC: $55k → 15%HIGH SOARING EAGLE CENTER INC: $200k → 14%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 5 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$5.6M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FR
    Frazier Revitalization Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +412% · 52% of their budget
  • PA
    Pathways Adult Learning Center Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue ×12
  • MM
    MISSION METROPLEX INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $942k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOODSON CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -7%
  • MC
    MERCY CHEFS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +296%
  • HS
    High Soaring Eagle Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -9%
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
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services
2
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition
3
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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4
Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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5
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
6
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
7
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
10
Meals On Wheels North Central Texas Inc

Organization provides services to senior citizens and the disabled, primarily through home-delivered meals and congregate meals.

Human Services
11
Meals On Wheels and More Inc

To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.

Food & Nutrition
12
Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of

Provide nutrition services, in-home support services, information/referral, and transportation services to older adults in fairfield county

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is High Soaring Eagle Center 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

12 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Frazier Revitalization Inc: $2,559,000 · Community ImprovementFrazier Revitalization IncWOODSON CENTER: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementWOODSON CENTERPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $1,755,000 · Human ServicesPathways Adult Learning Center In…MERCY CHEFS INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INCHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesMISSION METROPLEX INC: $942,432 · PhilanthropyMISSION METROPL…GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND HAVEN ARE…THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $53,848 · PhilanthropySENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $221,568 · OtherAMERICAN CLEFT PALATE - CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $170,000 · OtherCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$4,059,000Human Services$2,380,000Philanthropy$1,096,280Other$391,568Food & Nutrition$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFrazier Revitalization Inc: $2,559,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetPathways Adult Learning Center Inc: $1,755,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $1,500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMISSION METROPLEX INC: $942,432 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $400,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $221,568 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN CLEFT PALATE - CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION: $170,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $53,848 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS COLLIN COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Communities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Amparo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Amparo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Amparo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Amparo 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 12 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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