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Ann & Forrest Word Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of ANN & FORREST WORD FAMILY FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLE | $19,000 |
| THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION | $15,926 |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA ALAMO AREA COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| ROCKPORT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 Ann & Forrest Word Family 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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +18%
- TCTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +5%
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- HCHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- RTRemember the Alamo Foundationone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- TTTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
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 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.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The primary activity of samf fund is to support the san antonio medical foundation, a 501(c) (3) organization by managing its investments and unrelated real estate.
Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.
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…
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
Conduct research projects on public policy proposals addressing thoseissues that affect day-to-day lives, budgets, and quality of life ofindividuals affected. this research will be the basis for developingeducational materials. initial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Academy of Texas and the most unlike its peers is Rockport-Fulton Good Samarinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC ↗
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: Circle Bar Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Marshall Steves Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Ann & Forrest Word Family 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.
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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