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David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$701k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$30k20%
FY20243$15k0%
FY20234$25k0%
FY20226$25k50%
FY20217$25k57%
FY20206$30k33%
FY20192$18k100%
FY20188$21k63%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$60kHuman Services$35kHealth$34kArts & Culture$30kRecreation & Sports$20kAnimals$18kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $27,581 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Benevolent Fund: $27,581 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYouth Orchestras of San Antonio: $10,145 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of San Antonio (Audit): $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget4DogSakes Rescue: $7,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetChildsafe: $6,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClarity Child Guidance Center: $6,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Children's Museum: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRaes Hope Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetMeals on Wheels San Antonio: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of San Antonio Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Chorus of San Antonio: $4,470 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAny Baby Can of San Antonio Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Food Bank: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSymphony Society of San Antonio: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Sports Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Guild of Fayetteville Texas: $1,820 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSan Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership: $1,470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCircle Theatre Inc: $1,470 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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 FoundationTX37.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Nathalie & Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Nustar Foundation · Marietta K Randall Foundation Trust

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.

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About David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust

How much does David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust give?
David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust reported 10 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (17%), Health (16%).
Who are David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($28k), Physicians Benevolent Fund ($28k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio ($21k).
Does David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation.
Where is David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust based?
David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust is based in TX.

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 26 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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