How much did 80-20 Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of 80-20 Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

innovationenergytech reporter

2019

livetechbloctech

2020

covidnutritioneducationbook

2021

planninglivestock showparktechradio

2022

programmingsummerleadershipfellows

2023

fearcoherent cybersummerplanningstudentseducation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 39 grants

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

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

San Antonio Area Foundation$836,000
Community Foundation of Jackson Hol$250,000
Artpace San Antonio$250,000
New Braunfels Youth Collaborative$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
Great Springs Project$50,000
Arboretum San Antonio$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 39 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$29M

$9.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+63%

Still filing today

59%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

SA
San Antonio Area Foundation
7× · 2018–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +100%
The University of Texas Foundation
3× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +213%
TU
Trinity University
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +20%

Funded once

GE
Graham Elizabeth Weston Dnr Advised
one grant, 2019 · $3.0M
FC
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
one grant, 2022 · $1.8M
TI
Truth In Nutrition Donor Advised Fu
one grant, 2019 · $1.3M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Fiesta San Antonio Foundation

The Fiesta San Antonio Foundation supports programs,events and non-profit organizations that create a safe,healthy and educational Fiesta. We preserve the history,culture and heritage of San Antonio and positively impact economic…

Human Services

The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association

Recreation & Sports

The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the development and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of quality employers and job producing investments.

—

San Antonio Regional Hospital

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.

Health

Southern Methodist University

The Primary mission of the university is education through research and teaching by creating and imparting knowledge that will shape citizens who contribute to their communities and lead professions in a global society.

Education

North Austin Foundation

The foundation operates a facility to promote recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.

Health

Free Trade Alliance San Antonio

To develop and enhance the international trade-related economic development of the san antonio area through foreign investment, trade development, and advocacy.

—

The Austin Area Commission for the Arts

Applaud and advance all arts by welcoming diverse, creative individuals to inspire our community.

Philanthropy

San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improve health care, advance biomedical science, and provide leadership & active stewardship of our land and other assets.

Health

South Central Texas Foundation

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trinity University. 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 18 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/44

the rest of the field

12%

1,895/16,105

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/42

Grantees still filing

29/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$30,833,389Philanthropy$4,243,827Education$1,444,964Arts & Culture$1,283,455Health$974,551Community Improvement$955,000Environment$437,500

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX43.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable · The Brown Foundation Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable · The RWM Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts · The Charles Butt 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Citizen Science Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 16.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 846753275 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Citizen Science Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to 80-20 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 80-20 Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

80-20 Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to 80-20 Foundation?

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80-20 Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to 80-20 Foundation?

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