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Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
108
Grants FY2023
15
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of AMY SHELTON MCNUTT CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 108 grants below total $941,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,199,282 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $257,882 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k81 grants · $238k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $403k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $301k
$4,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Western Art Foundation dba Briscoe Western Art Museum$151,000
The Nature Conservancy Texas Chapter$100,000
Port Aransas Conservancy Fund$50,000
Texas A&M Foundation$45,000
The Heritage Foundation$30,000
SNIPSA$25,000
Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation$25,000
Sigma Chi Foundation$21,000
Competitive Enterprise Institute$20,000
Young America's Foundation fbo Reagan's Ranch$20,000
Conservative Partnership Institute$20,000
The Leadership Institute$20,000
Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance$16,000
Mission Heritage Partners$16,000
Freedom Works Foundation$15,000
02Your 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 84 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
55

Total granted

$2.5M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • LC
    LOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $258k · revenue +149% · 30% of their budget
  • RT
    Remember the Alamo Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $252k · revenue +336%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $95k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • HA
    Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -49%
  • FO
    Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • SS
    SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -429%

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

03Your 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.

1
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
2
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

4
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
5
One Tail At a Time West Texas

One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…

Animals
6
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
7
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
8
Houston Zoo Inc

Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…

Animals
9
Uatx

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,…

Education
10
Texas Foundation for Conservation

Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations campaign on social media with over 7.5 million impressions. Twenty plus speaking engagements to a variety of conservation organizations…

Animals
11
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
12
Safe in Austin Rescue Ranch

Our healing hearts program rescues animals from abuse, neglect or have a special need and introduces them to children and adults that suffer from the same backgrounds for some healing time at no cost.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsGovernment Accountability &…Public School District Foun…Public Library SupportFaith-Based Senior LivingChildhood Cancer SupportYouth Development CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesVolunteer Fire & RescueWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Veteran Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterEarly Childhood Care CentersLocal History MuseumsCommunity Hospital SystemsCollege Foundation SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%15%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr10%44%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/119
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,685

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.

03the grantee network

116 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 116 of the 180 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/116
Grantees still filing
82/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Nature Conservancy Texas Chapter — $525,000 · OtherThe Nature Conservancy Texas ChapterNational Western Art Foundation dba Briscoe Western Art Museum — $363,000 · OtherNational Western Art Foundation dba Briscoe Western Art MuseumLOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO — $257,500 · OtherLOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIOSNIPSA — $61,000 · Other+107 more — $599,089 · Other+107 moreRemember the Alamo Foundation — $252,000 · Arts & CultureRemember the…Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association — $16,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $31,100 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTexas A&M Foundation — $95,000 · EducationTexas A&M…Conservative Partnership Institute — $80,000 · EducationConservat…Sigma Chi Foundation — $23,000 · EducationSigma Chi…ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $20,500 · EducationALAMO HEI…+6 more — $16,000 · Education+6 morePORT ARANSAS CONSERVANCY FUND — $75,000 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $32,500 · EnvironmentGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE — $27,700 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $10,000 · EnvironmentTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $8,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $6,000 · Environment+5 more — $12,350 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC — $25,500 · AnimalsTriple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary — $24,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) — $11,000 · AnimalsEvanescent Mustang Rescue and Sanctuary Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsMustang Heritage Foundation — $10,000 · AnimalsPEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY INC — $9,200 · AnimalsETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER — $7,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $6,500 · AnimalsHEART OF TEXAS SPCA — $6,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $5,000 · Animals+11 more — $23,300 · AnimalsTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $46,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $35,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Renewing America Inc — $10,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE — $9,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC — $5,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $4,000 · Public BenefitFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $10,000 · HealthTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTriple H Equitherapy Center — $9,000 · HealthTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthProject MEND — $4,000 · Health+2 more — $1,250 · Health
Other$1,805,589Arts & Culture$311,100Education$234,500Environment$171,550Animals$137,500Public Benefit$134,000Health$39,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO — $257,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation — $252,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPORT ARANSAS CONSERVANCY FUND — $75,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTIVATE OUR STUDENTS OF TEXAS — $30,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE — $27,700 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTriple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary — $24,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation — $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION — $16,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPort Aransas Preservation and Historical Association — $16,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF MUSTANGS AND BURROS — $16,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SADDLE LIGHT CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP — $10,151 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCenter for Renewing America Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEvanescent Mustang Rescue and Sanctuary Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMustang Heritage Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBulverde Area Humane Society — $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTPACE INC (AUDIT) — $9,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPEEWEE'S PET ADOPTION WORLD & SANCTUARY INC — $9,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTriple H Equitherapy Center — $9,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER — $7,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBill of Rights Institute — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS SPCA — $6,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budget
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 FoundationTX78.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · McCombs Foundation Inc · The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Harvey E Najim 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 180 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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