· Private foundation
Dawson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS | $25,000 |
| TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ARISE AFRICA INC | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC7× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +58%
- TTTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +66%
- AAARISE AFRICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +244%
Funded once
- FVFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +3%
- CBCHARITY BALL LEGACY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -82%
- CKCity Kids Adventuresgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +99%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The san antonio children's foundation was organized to provide much needed funding to schools and other non-profit entities through its involvement with san antonio golf association and its birdies for charities fund raiser. essentially…
To support and benefit st. anthony catholic school.
The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.
Develop and promote the lifetime sport
The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.
Arboretum San Antonio (ASA), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2021, is building a world-class arboretum on the former Republic Golf Course in the heart of San Antonios historic Southside. The first in San Antonio and the…
The children's ballet of san antonio (cbsa) is an all children's performance dance company whose mission is to inspire the pursuit of excellence and prepare children for productive and creative lives through dance.
At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
ATX KIDS CLUB's mission is to empower youth through educational adventures that promote independence, confidence, and a deeper connection to their community - one field trip at a time.
To protect the rights of hunters and the hunting heritage through advocacy, policy, and legislation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Banovich Wildscapes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ARISE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY BALL LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds City Kids Adventures ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
- Who funds Shikar-Safari Club International ↗
- Who funds BANOVICH WILDSCAPES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Alamo Heights Mule Team Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Nelson Puett Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return
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 Dawson Family Foundation 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.
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.