· Private foundation
Christal 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BIG FIX HOMELESS CAT PROJECT OF THE TEXAS HILL | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS | $5,000 |
| BEAR DEN SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| THE DAISY FUND | $2,500 |
| WILSON COUNTY AREA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL WELL-BEING | $2,500 |
| HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +5%
- BDBEAR DEN SANCTUARY2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
- ARANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS2× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SCSHADOW CATS RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +96%
- FFFOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +92%
- TVTEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +227%
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.
Meowtown animal rescue of fort worth takes in unwanted abused and stray kittens & cats to keep them out of shelters.we are all volunteer donation based and provide safety vetting love and find life-long homes.we educate the public and…
Placement of neutered cats and kittens
Animal shelter and rescue
Houston Cares Rescue is a volunteer organization rescuing animals from the streets, and occasionally from shelters, in Houston, TX, and caring for them primarily with foster families until a loving home can be found. We operate a…
Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to assist lost, abandoned, neglected and abused animals in San Saba County, Texas.
To rescue cats in need provide them with necessary medical care and adopt them into forever homes.
We own and operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic. Our purpose is to end animal cruelty in Texas, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and end the dumping and abandonment of cats and dogs. We also have an education program to teach Texas residents…
Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.
sterilization, rehabilitation, veterinary care of homel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Big Fix Homeless Cat Project of the Texas Hill Country. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds SHADOW CATS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BIG FIX HOMELESS CAT PROJECT OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY AREA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL WELL-BEING ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
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 · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Christal 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.