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The Maria Altmann Family 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 $10k29 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| BET TZEDEK THE HOUSE OF JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| LA OPERA | $10,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER SPOTLIGHT | $10,000 |
| USC THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| SBV WATER POLO CLUB | $6,000 |
| VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS | $4,300 |
| FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT | $1,800 |
| SECOND CITY CHAMBER SERIES | $1,500 |
| TACOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $600 |
| GRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB | $600 |
| SAVE | $550 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $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 (FY19–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
- ZCZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +65% · 48% of their budget
- BTBET TZEDEK5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +123%
- LALOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- UFUSC FOR FRITZ ALTMANN SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2022 · $10k
- UFUCLA FOR FRITZ ALTMANN SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AFAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +81%
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 Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is inspiring conservation of our marine environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tacoma Arts Live and the most unlike its peers is Christopher Hills Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 80 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 ZONTA CLUB OF HANALEI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Second City Chamber Series ↗
- Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
- Who funds OHANA OASIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA ADOPTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FORBADGES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE RIPPLE EFFECT ↗
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: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Bamford Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · The Russell Family Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Sequoia Foundation · Forest Foundation · The Dimmer Family Foundation · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation
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 Maria Altmann Family 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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