· Private foundation
Alfred S Gage Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $154,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $184,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Antonio Academy | $10,000 |
| Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy | $10,000 |
| Bexar Audubon Society | $10,000 |
| Blood & Tissue Center | $10,000 |
| Marathon Volunteer Fire Department | $7,500 |
| Youth Orchestras of San Antonio | $7,500 |
| Shumla Archaeological Research & Ed. Ctr. | $5,000 |
| Hill Country Church | $5,000 |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | $5,000 |
| San Antonio Christian Dental Center | $5,000 |
| Mitchel Lake Audubon Center | $5,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity San Antonio | $5,000 |
| Texas Wildlife Association Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Children's Shelter | $5,000 |
| Mission Road Ministries | $5,000 |
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 +13% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- MRMISSION ROAD MINISTRIES4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +13%
- GDGuide Dogs of Texas Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +287%
- VAVETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- RTRemember the Alamo Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +336%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
- TUTrinity Universityone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
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 witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
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 ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ronald McDONALD House Charities of Greater North Texas Inc. 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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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.
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- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds BEXAR AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
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- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
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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 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation · McCombs Foundation Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable 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.
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