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Caritas Charitable Trust at a glance

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Caritas Charitable Trust

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$13kYouth Development$5kEnvironment$5kArts & Culture$4kEducation$3kHealth$2kRecreation & Sports$1kPhilanthropy$625Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
1
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
First Presbyterian$2,200
Individual grant recipient$1,925
Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance$1,875
Hill Country Cowby Camp$750
San Antonio Tuesday Muscal Club$500
Church of the Incarnation$500
Cactus Pear Music Festival$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN DELEGATION OF SAVOY ORDERS: $550 → 17%DISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED: $250 → 12%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION: $2k → 14%MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD: $1k → 16%Houston Grand Opera: $125 → 16%VOICE OF THE MARTYRS: $250 → 14%ORDER OF SAINT JOHN: $900 → 14%Impact Ministries: $125 → 11%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 8%THE FOUNDATION FOR AM CHRIS ED: $250 → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION OF SAVOY ORDERS: $450 → 17%Hill Country Cowby Camp: $750 → 13%Church of the Incarnation Episcopal: $600 → 14%Argyle Foundation: $625 → 16%Order of St John: $800 → 14%CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP: $250 → 8%American Foudnation of Savoy Orders: $150 → 17%Church of the Incarnation: $500 → 14%MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD: $250 → 16%Church of the Incarnation Episcopal: $200 → 14%First Presbyterian: $2k → 16%CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION EPISCOPAL: $100 → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 16%First Presbyterian Church: $2k → 16%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 16%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $800 → 16%TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $365 → 16%ART PACE SAN ANTONIO: $250 → 16%THE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF SAN ANT: $500 → 16%SAN ANTONIO RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 16%CACTUS PEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL: $500 → 16%Cactus Pear Music Festival: $250 → 16%Cactus Pear Music Festival: $250 → 16%TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FOUNDATION: $575 → 16%Texas Biomedical Research Foundatio: $475 → 16%Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance: $2k → 16%Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance: $1k → 16%GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE: $675 → 16%GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE: $500 → 16%UTSA LIBRARIES: $1k → 16%San Antonio Tuesday Muscal Club: $500 → 16%UTSA LIBRARIES: $1k → 16%BASILICA OF THE LITTLE FLOWER: $100 → 16%THE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF SAN ANT: $250 → 16%THE MARIPOSA DIFFERENCE: $50 → 16%Musical Bridges: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MO
VA
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 10 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$20k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GE
    GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +25%
  • MB
    Musical Bridges Around the World Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +26%
  • CP
    Cactus Pear Music Festival
    3× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +191%
  • OO
    ORDER OF SAINT JOHN
    one grant, 2022 · $900
  • PI
    PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2021 · $800 · revenue +19%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
3
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…

Arts & Culture
4
Hopera

Hopera's mission is to produce live musical performances in unique Houston Area spaces that focus on and empower Houston Area artists. Our Pint-Sized Performance concert series empowers local musicians to create original programs that are…

Arts & Culture
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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6
Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas
Arts & Culture
7
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Operativo Houston

Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.

Arts & Culture
9
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
10
Luminaria

Luminaria delivers a contemporary arts program that includes a festival of international stature; supports downtown and the urban core; and brings attention to San Antonios multi-arts culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
—
12
The Giving Rose Foundation Atx
Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musical Bridges Around the World Inc; the most unlike its peers is Argyle Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH FOUNDATION: $5,250 · OtherHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH FOUNDATIONFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $5,160 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUTSA LIBRARIES: $2,563 · OtherUTSA LIBRARIESFirst Presbyterian: $2,200 · OtherFirst PresbyterianCHURCH OF THE INCARNATION: $2,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE INCARNATIONIndividual grant recipient: $1,925 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORDER OF SAINT JOHN: $900 · OtherChurch of the Incarnation Episcopal: $900 · Other+13 more: $5,575 · Other+13 moreGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE: $4,325 · EnvironmentGREATER EDWAR…Musical Bridges Around the World Inc: $1,525 · Arts & CultureMusical Bri…Cactus Pear Music Festival: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCactus Pear…ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $365 · Arts & CultureALAMO PUBLI…TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $365 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLI…ARTPACE INC (AUDIT): $250 · Arts & CultureARTPACE INC…Houston Grand Opera Association Inc: $125 · Arts & CulturePRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $800 · HealthAmerican Foundation of Savoy Orders Incorporated: $600 · HealthArgyle Foundation: $625 · PhilanthropyDISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED INC: $250 · Crime & LegalThe MaripoSA Difference Inc: $50 · Community Improvement
Other$26,473Environment$4,325Arts & Culture$3,630Health$1,400Philanthropy$625Crime & Legal$250Community Improvement$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE: $4,325 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc: $1,525 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCactus Pear Music Festival: $1,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArgyle Foundation: $625 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Foundation of Savoy Orders Incorporated: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Rescue Mission: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTPACE INC (AUDIT): $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISCIPLESHIP UNLIMITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe MaripoSA Difference Inc: $50 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

Alice Kleberg Reynold…San Antonio Area Foun…Russell Hill Rogers F…80-20 FoundationNancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800TX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · San Antonio Area Foundation · Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts · 80-20 Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Caritas Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caritas Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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