· Private foundation
Bellinger 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
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAQUEROS DEL MAR RELIEF FUND | $325,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC | $45,000 |
| GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| SAN FERNANDO CATHEDRAL CO REICHLE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BEXAR COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW | $20,550 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN MEAT SCIENCE ASSOCIATION | $16,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION | $7,411 |
| NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BEACON STATE FUND | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of your 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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
- TATexas A&M Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $681k · revenue +43%
- SASAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $255k · revenue +53%
- AMAMERICAN MEAT SCIENCE ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $53k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TATHE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
- TFTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $91k · revenue 0%
- TATEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -66%
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.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Building on the proven success of texas agriculture education and the texas ffa program, our mission is distinguished by the continued development, funding, and implementation of cutting edge learning opportunities focusing on academic…
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
A) to encourage an understanding and appreciatiion of the work of the texas a&m university libraries;b) to build and develop a greater realization of the importance of the texas a&m university libraries to the future development of the…
Txffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
The texas food & fuel association scholarship foundation awards scholarships to outstanding students in the state of texas.
To support the university of texas system
To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
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…
To improve the cattle raising industry in texas and the southwest through education, market inspection, law enforcement and other member services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bexar County Junior Livestock Show. 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 26 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) — 24% of your grantees by number, and just 23% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MEAT SCIENCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEXAR COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ↗
- Who funds M D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO A & M CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION ↗
- Who funds BEACON STATE FUND ↗
- Who funds 210 INSPIRED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WESTERN ART FOUNDATION BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNN COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
- Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Bellinger 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.