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David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust at a glance

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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 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

+24%
+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
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

  • 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%
  • C
    CHILDSAFEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +216%
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
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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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.

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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…

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10
San Antonio Tennis Association

Develop and promote the lifetime sport

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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…

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12
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Orchestras of San Antonio; 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 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. 23 of the 26 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Faye L & William L Co…Marcia & Otto Koehler…Nathalie & Gladys Dal…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…John R & Greli N Less…Betty Stieren Kelso F…John L Santikos Chari…Nustar FoundationMarietta K Randall Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David and Betty Sacks Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, 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 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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