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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 FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Fb Doane Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving15$110k20%
FY202315$185k40%
FY20226$37k17%
FY202112$152k42%
FY20207$102k0%
FY20198$110k25%
FY20187$106k14%
FY20178$127kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$426kEducation$216kEnvironment$160kYouth Development$43kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, 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 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fb Doane Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSouthwest School of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Museum of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Opera San Antonio Dba Opera San An: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSan Antonio River Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetContemporary Art for San Antonio: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 18.

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.

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

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 Fb Doane Foundation

How much does Fb Doane Foundation give?
Fb Doane Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $109,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fb Doane Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (23%), Environment (17%).
Who are Fb Doane Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: McNay Art Museum ($291k), Brackenridge Park Conservancy ($100k), Frontier Times Museum ($80k).
Does Fb Doane Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fb Doane Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fb Doane Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, San Antonio Area Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992.
Where is Fb Doane Foundation based?
Fb Doane Foundation 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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