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Christal Foundation at a glance

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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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$47kPhilanthropy$4kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS: $5k → 7%TEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%WILSON COUNTY AREA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL WELL-BEING: $3k → 11%THE BIG FIX HOMELESS CAT PROJECT OF THE TEXAS HILL: $5k → 13%FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%THE DAISY FUND: $3k → 11%ANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS: $3k → 7%ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $3k → 16%THE DAISY FUND: $1k → 11%HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY: $1k → 16%SAN ANTONIO HUMANE SOCIETY: $6k → 16%SAN ANTONIO HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 16%BEAR DEN SANCTUARY: $5k → 16%BEAR DEND SANCTUARY: $3k → 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.
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 4 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$28k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+92%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +5%
  • BD
    BEAR DEN SANCTUARY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS
    2× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHADOW CATS RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +96%
  • FF
    FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +92%
  • TV
    TEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +227%
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
Meowtown Animal Rescue of Fort Worth

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…

Animals
2
Forgotten Felines of Texas

Placement of neutered cats and kittens

Animals
3
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
4
Houston Cares Animal 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…

Animals
5
The Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue

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…

Animals
6
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

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,…

Animals
7
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
8
San Saba County Friends of Animals

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to assist lost, abandoned, neglected and abused animals in San Saba County, Texas.

Animals
9
Tabby Tails Cat Rescue

To rescue cats in need provide them with necessary medical care and adopt them into forever homes.

Animals
10
South Texas Animal Rescue Group

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…

Animals
11
Tampa Bay Strays Inc

Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.

Animals
12
North Texas Cat Rescue

sterilization, rehabilitation, veterinary care of homel

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Feral Cat Coalition; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT): $8,750 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT)ANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS: $7,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONSSHADOW CATS RESCUE: $6,250 · AnimalsSHADOW CATS RESCUEBIG FIX HOMELESS CAT PROJECT OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY: $5,000 · AnimalsBIG FIX HOMELESS CAT PROJECT OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRYTEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · AnimalsTEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $2,500 · AnimalsANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXASWILSON COUNTY AREA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL WELL-BEING: $2,500 · AnimalsWILSON COUNTY AREA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMAL WELL-BEINGBEAR DEN SANCTUARY: $8,100 · OtherBEAR DEN SANCTUARYTHE DAISY FUND: $3,500 · OtherTHE DAISY FUNDSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION: $1,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALI…FOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 · PhilanthropyHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Animals$35,000Other$12,600Philanthropy$2,600Housing & Shelter$1,000

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 budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT): $8,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS: $7,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSHADOW CATS RESCUE: $6,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIG FIX HOMELESS CAT PROJECT OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFOOTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FERAL CAT COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Petco LovePetsmart Charities IncKeith M Orme and Pat …Amy Shelton McNutt Ch…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
San Antonio Area FoundationTX15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Christal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 12 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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