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Fb Doane 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.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$426kEducation$216kEnvironment$160kYouth Development$43kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST$25,000
ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION$20,000
BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM$10,000
MCNAY ART MUSEUM$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF$5,000
CITY KIDS ADVENTURES$5,000
FRIENDS OF HONDONDO CREEK TRAILS$5,000
THE TEXAS CAVALIERS$5,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$2,500
SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION$2,500
FRIENDS OF CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA$2,500
CONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO$2,500
ALLEGHENY COLLEGE$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $64k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY: $60k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $55k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $50k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $50k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $35k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $30k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%THE TEXAS CAVALIERS: $25k → 16%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY: $20k → 16%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY: $20k → 16%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $15k → 16%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $8k → 16%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF HONDONDO CREEK TRAILS: $5k → 16%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%THE TEXAS CAVALIERS: $5k → 16%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%HERITAGE AND LEARNING CENTER: $13k → 16%SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $10k → 16%ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 16%TEXAS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $25k → 16%TEXAS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $25k → 16%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF: $20k → 16%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO: $20k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$832k · 15 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$832k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+34%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • BP
    Brackenridge Park Conservancy
    3× · 2019–2021 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • FT
    Frontier Times Museum
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +82%
  • TA
    Texas Agricultural Land Trust
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • HA
    HERITAGE AND LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +50%

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 Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
2
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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4
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
5
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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6
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
7
Texas Association of Museums

The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
8
San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association

To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
9
American Society of Landscape Architects Texas Chapter

Advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare.

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10
San Antonio Art League

The mission of the San Antonio Art League & Museum is to preserve and exhibit our collection of local and regional art and to promote art by means of exhibitions lectures and other related activities.

Arts & Culture
11
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
12
Texas Society of Architects

Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is City Kids Adventures. 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

18 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. 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCNAY ART MUSEUM — $291,478 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUMFrontier Times Museum — $80,000 · Arts & CultureFrontier Times Museum+3 more — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreBANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — $80,000 · OtherBANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL …Individual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS — $30,000 · OtherTHE TEXAS CAVALIERSUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN …ST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF SAN — $17,500 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL O…HERITAGE AND LEARNING CENTER — $12,500 · OtherHERITAGE AND LEARNING CENTE…SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART — $10,000 · Other+4 more — $15,000 · Other+4 moreBrackenridge Park Conservancy — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsBrackenridge…Trinity University — $37,500 · EducationTrinity Univ…SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN — $25,000 · EducationSUNSHINE COT…ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEG…ALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $16,000 · EducationALLEGHENY CO…Texas Agricultural Land Trust — $50,000 · EnvironmentSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentCity Kids Adventures — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $2,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$396,478Other$225,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Education$98,500Environment$60,000Youth Development$40,000Philanthropy$5,000Health$2,500

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 budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $291,478 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy — $100,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFrontier Times Museum — $80,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCity Kids Adventures — $40,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTrinity University — $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Brown Foundation …San Antonio Area Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Impetus FoundationMays Family FoundationPryor Myra Stafford C…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Charitable Foundation…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Semmes Foundation IncJoseph & Martye Rubin…Elma Dill Russell Spe…
The Brown Foundation IncTX25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Impetus Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Semmes Foundation Inc · Joseph & Martye Rubin Foundation · Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation

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 Fb Doane 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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