· Public charity
Blue Bird Auxiliary
To provide financial support to various programs, research and education for the direct benefit of patients and/or the families of the methodist hospitals at the medical center, san antonio.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Blue Bird Auxiliary’s FY2025 grant dollars went to San Antonio Area Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Blue Bird Auxiliary named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $44k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METHODIST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - MCH & WOMEN'S SERVICES | $13,000 |
| KINETIC KIDS INC | $8,000 |
| HEARTS NEED ART | $8,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $5,000 |
| SPINA BIFADA TEXAS | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMETHODIST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM6× · 2017–2024 · $91k
- HNHEARTS NEED ART5× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue -36%
- KKKinetic Kids Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TKTRACYS KIDS INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -68%
- TTTHE TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION OF TEXASone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +20%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Bird Auxiliary funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Bird Auxiliary. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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