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80-20 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 $10k12 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Antonio Area Foundation | $836,000 |
| Community Foundation of Jackson Hol | $250,000 |
| New Braunfels Youth Collaborative | $250,000 |
| Artpace San Antonio | $250,000 |
| University of Texas - San Antonio | $176,000 |
| NPower | $156,000 |
| Witte Museum | $150,000 |
| Center for Applied Science Tech Net | $145,000 |
| Centro San Antonio | $140,500 |
| United Way of San Antonio Bexar Cou | $100,000 |
| Grameen America | $100,000 |
| ESTEAM Foundation Inc | $78,500 |
| Texas AM San Antonio Foundation | $75,000 |
| Arboretum San Antonio | $50,000 |
| Great Springs Project | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of 80-20 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 18 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $873k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2024 · $15M · revenue +6%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +88%- TUTrinity University7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- GEGraham Elizabeth Weston Dnr Advisedone grant, 2019 · $3.0M
- TITruth In Nutrition Donor Advised Fuone grant, 2019 · $1.3M
- FDFidelity Donor Advised Fundone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
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 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.
The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…
The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…
To develop and enhance the international trade-related economic development of the san antonio area through foreign investment, trade development, and advocacy.
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 san antonio association for financial professionals [saafp] is a regional educational forum for individuals involved in all aspects of the finance profession. saafp hosts educational luncheons and networking events to facilitate the…
Through joyful learning and discovery, the doseum experience grows curious minds, connects families, and transforms communities.
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…
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
To foster human and community development through community-based arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Energy Partnerships Innovation Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 101 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 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds BioBridge Global ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Report ↗
- Who funds ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY PARTNERSHIPS INNOVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTPACE INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds Citizen Science Foundation ↗
- Who funds New Braunfels Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATESA ↗
- Who funds GREATER SAN ANTONIO AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds Center For Applied Science & Technology Network ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alamo Angels ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIDALGO FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Hixon Family Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · The Charles Butt Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324
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 80-20 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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