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The Gorman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| SPACE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LIV - IN THE JOURNEY | $20,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLEVELAND TN | $15,000 |
| WATERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF INCARNATE WORD | $10,000 |
| FREE 2 FLY | $10,000 |
| ISAIAH HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHIDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CANDIES CREEK ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BRANCHED OAK OBSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| CIBOLO NATURE CENTER & FARM | $5,000 |
| CAMP ARANZAZU | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- SMSt Mary's University3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +26%
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +68%
- UOUniversity of the Incarnate Word7× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +14%
- CICANARY ISLAND HISTORIC MONUMENTone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…
The mission of the sa cancer council is to provide financial resources for patient assistance services and cancer research to support the mays cancer center, home to ut health san antonio md anderson.
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.
University health foundation improves the lives of patients, families, and communities by funding transformative care and medical innovations to advance the work of university health.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
Bexar county medical society is the organization that serves and represents the member physicians of bexar county in providing quality health care for their patients and the public.
The primary activity of samf fund is to support the san antonio medical foundation, a 501(c) (3) organization by managing its investments and unrelated real estate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Hope of Bexar County and the most unlike its peers is Branched Oak Observatory. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 48 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 St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Space Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE 2 FLY INC ↗
- Who funds INCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds New Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center aka iChoose Pregnancy Support Services ↗
- Who funds Branched Oak Observatory ↗
- Who funds Bexar County Family Justice Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Braverman Family Charitable Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600
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 Gorman 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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