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David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$60kHuman Services$35kHealth$34kArts & Culture$30kRecreation & Sports$20kAnimals$18kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$701k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND$3,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK$3,000
ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO$3,000
YMCA OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO$3,000
CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO$3,000
SAAF-JOE SALEK SCHOLARSHIP FUND$3,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY$3,000
BRIGHTON SCHOOL INC$3,000
SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$3,000
KINETIC KIDS INC$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDSAFE: $6k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $5k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 9 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$142k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +72%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO
    3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +2%
  • KK
    Kinetic Kids Inc
    2× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -41%
  • 4R
    4DogSakes Rescue
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
2
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
3
Child Advocates San Antonio

To recruit, develop, and lead court-appointed volunteer advocates who provide constancy for abused and neglected children and youth while advocating for services and placement in safe and permanent homes.

Civil Rights
4
Sa Talent Inc Sa Works

The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…

Education
5
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
6
San Anto Cultural Arts

To foster human and community development through community-based arts.

Arts & Culture
7
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
8
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

9
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

10
San Antonio Tennis Association

Develop and promote the lifetime sport

11
Advocates Social Services of San Antonio Texas

To educate qualified individuals of public benefits that they may be entitled to. we accomplish this by working with local city, state, and federal agencies for the purpose of outreach and verification work. recently we have focused mainly…

12
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Orchestras of San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is 4DogSakes Rescue. 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

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAAF-JOE SALEK SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $27,581 · OtherSAAF-JOE SALEK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO — $21,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTO…YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO — $10,145 · OtherYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO4DogSakes Rescue — $7,500 · Other4DogSakes RescueBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN — $5,145 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $5,000 · OtherBRIGHTON SCHOOL INC — $4,820 · OtherRAES HOPE INC — $5,500 · OtherRAES HOPE INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $4,500 · Other+5 more — $10,790 · Other+5 morePHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND — $27,581 · HealthPHYSICIANS BENEVO…CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $6,370 · HealthCLARITY CHILD GUI…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $27,581 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRAT…SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION FUND DBA SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $1,470 · EducationCHILDSAFE — $6,370 · Human ServicesRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesKinetic Kids Inc — $13,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $5,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO — $4,470 · Arts & CultureART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS — $1,820 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) — $10,000 · Animals
Other$101,981Health$33,951Education$29,051Human Services$14,370Recreation & Sports$13,000Arts & Culture$11,790Animals$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $6,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSAFE — $6,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAES HOPE INC — $5,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

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

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 David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    12report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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