· Private foundation
Barrett Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| TOBIN CENTER | $95,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $20,000 |
| REY FEO CONSEJO EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,750 |
| ARBORETUM SAN ANTONIO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,020 |
| HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPMENT CORP | $2,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO QUEEN OF SOUL | $1,600 |
| BENEDICTINE SISTERS | $1,250 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| OPERA SAN ANTONIO | $1,000 |
| KLRN | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $500 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $300 |
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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- SMSt Mary's University6× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +32%
- UOUniversity of Dayton5× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +38%
- FOFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ACALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- SMSAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TUTHE UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -11%
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.
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…
The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
Advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare.
The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.
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…
Preserve, advance and cultivate classical music by supporting and promoting live performances, providing financial assistance and service, and supporting and creating educational efforts/programs of nonprofit classical music organizations…
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…
The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.
To preserve and to encourage the preservation of historic buildings, objects, places and customs relating to the history of texas, its natural beauty and all that is admirably distinctive to texas; and by such physical and cultural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Irreverent Warriors Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 62 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 St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hispanic Sports Foundation For Education Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO QUEEN OF SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Arboretum San Antonio ↗
- Who funds MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation ↗
- Who funds LO BELLO WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Fiesta San Antonio CommissionInc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Woman's Club of San Antonio ↗
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 · Impetus Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nustar 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 organization Barrett 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.