Texas · Private foundation
Circle Bar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Circle Bar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 49 | $1.6M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $1.4M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.1M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.5M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio Zoological Society | $1,197,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Christ Episcopal Church | $851,777 | 6 | n/a |
| Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children | $548,267 | 7 | 1% |
| The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation | $534,173 | 6 | 6% |
| Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas | $510,000 | 6 | 5% |
| San Antonio Food Bank | $392,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc | $358,400 | 7 | 4% |
| Bexar County Performing Arts Center Fdn Tobin Center for the Performing Art | $320,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Candlelight Ranch Foundation | $220,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $208,250 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Circle Bar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Circle Bar Foundation
- How much does Circle Bar Foundation give?
- Circle Bar Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $1,636,307 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Circle Bar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (14%), Animals (14%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Circle Bar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Antonio Zoological Society ($1.2M), Christ Episcopal Church ($852k), Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children ($548k).
- Does Circle Bar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Circle Bar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Circle Bar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation, Mays Family Foundation.
- Where is Circle Bar Foundation based?
- Circle Bar Foundation is based in TX.
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