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04arts Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$350
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$10kEducation$4kEnvironment$2kHealth$1kAnimals$850Public Safety & Disaster$590Civil Rights$450Youth Development$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$350
AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS$250
TEXANS FOR THE ARTS$250
SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE$250
AMERICAN RED CROSS$205
HENRY FORD ACADEMY ALAMEDA SCHOOL$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $100 → 8%EARTHJUSTICE: $100 → 10%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $150 → 16%WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 20%NEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%TEXANS FOR THE ARTS: $250 → 10%SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE: $100 → 16%ROCKPORT CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $250 → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $100 → 18%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $250 → 7%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $100 → 8%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $150 → 16%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $100 → 17%WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 20%NEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%SIERRA CLUB - LONE STAR CHAPTER: $100 → 10%BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY: $1k → 16%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $100 → 18%CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES: $100 → 8%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $120 → 16%WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $500 → 20%NEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY: $766 → 16%HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL: $250 → 10%BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY: $500 → 16%NEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $150 → 10%BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY: $500 → 16%BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY: $500 → 16%VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES: $500 → 17%BLUE STAR CONTEMPORARY: $250 → 16%INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $150 → 14%TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $250 → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $350 → 16%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $250 → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $350 → 16%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $250 → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $350 → 16%SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $250 → 16%AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $250 → 16%TWHS CLASS OF 1962 MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 16%WILDLIFE RESCUE: $300 → 16%SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE: $250 → 16%WILDLIFE RESCUE: $250 → 16%WILDLIFE RESCUE: $150 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $205 → 16%GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS: $300 → 16%MITCHELL LAKE AUDUBON CENTER: $150 → 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

NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 20 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
16

Total granted

$14k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+14%

Still filing today

65%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WC
    Watershed Collaborative Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +62%
  • AW
    Austin Wildlife Rescue
    4× · 2020–2024 · $775 · revenue +103%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $450 · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TC
    TWHS CLASS OF 1962 MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $385
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
Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
5
The 5 Gyres Institute

The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…

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6
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
7
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
9
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
10
Center for Biological Diversity Inc

The center for biological diversity inc, works to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. we do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and…

Animals
11
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
12
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

26 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. 26 of the 40 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,516 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEXANS FOR THE ARTS: $800 · OtherTEXANS FOR THE ARTSAFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $750 · OtherAFTER SCHOOL ALL STARSCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $520 · OtherTWHS CLASS OF 1962 MEMORIAL FUND: $500 · OtherSIERRA CLUB - LONE STAR CHAPTER: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $385 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $450 · Other+11 more: $2,205 · Other+11 moreWatershed Collaborative Inc: $2,500 · EducationWatershed Coll…Americans for the Arts Inc: $450 · Arts & CultureAmericans…SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE: $250 · Arts & CultureSAN PEDRO…TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $250 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUB…Glasstire: $250 · Arts & CultureGlasstireSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $250 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTON…SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE: $100 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTON…San Antonio Art League: $95 · Arts & CultureSan Anton…CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $350 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $275 · EnvironmentHEADWATERS AT THE COMAL: $250 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $200 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $175 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $150 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $100 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,050 · HealthNAMI National: $250 · HealthNEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FTD: $1,150 · PhilanthropyAustin Wildlife Rescue: $775 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $75 · Animals
Other$10,126Education$2,500Arts & Culture$1,645Environment$1,500Health$1,300Philanthropy$1,150Animals$850

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWatershed Collaborative Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS PUBLIC LIBRARY FTD: $1,150 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $1,050 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTEXANS FOR THE ARTS: $800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAustin Wildlife Rescue: $775 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for the Arts Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $275 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlasstire: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADWATERS AT THE COMAL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Art League: $95 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50 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…Arch & Stella Rowan F…Jack and Doris Smothe…John R & Greli N Less…Charitable Foundation…Marcia & Otto Koehler…Alice Kleberg Reynold…The Summerlee Foundat…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Arch & Stella Rowan Foundation Inc · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Summerlee Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 04arts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 04arts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to 04arts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 04arts 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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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