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The Gorman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$203k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MEducation$1.0MRecreation & Sports$174kScience & Tech$70kArts & Culture$47kHuman Services$37kReligion$35kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$60,000
LIV - IN THE JOURNEY$20,000
SPACE FOUNDATION$20,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLEVELAND TN$15,000
UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO$10,000
WATERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF INCARNATE WORD$10,000
FREE 2 FLY$10,000
ISAIAH HOUSE$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY$10,000
CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHIDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
BRANCHED OAK OBSERVATORY$5,000
CANDIES CREEK ACADEMY$5,000
CIBOLO NATURE CENTER & FARM$5,000
CAMP ARANZAZU$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP ARANZAZU: $3k → 17%LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 20 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$2.5M
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SM
    St Mary's University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +26%
  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +68%
  • UO
    University of the Incarnate Word
    7× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CC
    CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +14%
  • CI
    CANARY ISLAND HISTORIC MONUMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
2
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
3
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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4
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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5
Sa Cancer Council

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.

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6
San Antonio Report

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Greater Satx

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.

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8
University Health Foundation

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.

Health
9
Texas Medical Association

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…

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10
Bexar County Medical Society

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.

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11
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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12
Samf Fund

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Hope of Bexar County; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHIDREN'S HOSPITAL: $630,000 · OtherCHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHIDREN'S HOSPITALSt Mary's University: $500,000 · OtherSt Mary's University+30 more: $408,990 · Other+30 moreTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $485,000 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESE…CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S F…+3 more: $8,500 · HealthUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $365,000 · EducationUniversity of the Inc…ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDA…United States Space Foundation: $65,000 · EducationUnited States Space F…THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $115,000 · PhilanthropyALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNew Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center aka iChoose Pregnancy Support Services: $9,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesLOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,538,990Health$523,500Education$515,000Philanthropy$115,000Arts & Culture$21,000Human Services$12,700Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetSt Mary's University: $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $485,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $365,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $115,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Space Foundation: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE 2 FLY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetINCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNew Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center aka iChoose Pregnancy Support Services: $9,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBranched Oak Observatory: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBexar County Family Justice Center Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 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.

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Mays Family FoundationThe Nancy Wood Moorma…John R & Greli N Less…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Greater Houston Commu…Braverman Family Char…Charitable Foundation…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Gorman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gorman 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 48 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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