· Private foundation
Blanton 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $30,000 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT | $15,182 |
| ALPHA CHI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WHIZKIDS | $15,000 |
| GREENLIGHT | $15,000 |
| SW ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BOX 4 FIRE | $10,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $6,459 |
| PI KAPPA ALPHA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PRESERVATION PARK CITIES | $1,500 |
| ABBIE SHELTER | $1,031 |
| TMI-THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $500 |
| DTCARE - NATIONAL WILDLIFE FED | $250 |
| GLOBAL GIVING | $200 |
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 (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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; $65k 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
- NVNORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +88%
- WMWitte Museum2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +39%
- NVNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +18%
- AGALPHA GAMMA HOUSE CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
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 ufw foundation's mission is to empower communities to ensure human dignity.
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
We believe every texas student deserves the opportunity to earn a postsecondary credential or degree that helps them achieve the future they envision for themselves and their families. we invest in the programs, practices, and policies…
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenlight Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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 27 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.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DAEDALIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Pi Kappa Alpha Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BIG MOUNTAIN FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION PARK CITIES ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds DTCare ↗
- Who funds Lupus Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINIAN 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Blanton 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.