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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CITY KIDS ADVENTURES$5,000
THE TEXAS CAVALIERS$5,000
SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF$5,000
FRIENDS OF HONDONDO CREEK TRAILS$5,000
CONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO$2,500
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$2,500
SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION$2,500
FRIENDS OF CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA$2,500
ALLEGHENY COLLEGE$2,000
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.

show:

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

area typical 14%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $64k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $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%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $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%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $30k → 16%KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH: $5k → 27%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $10k → 12%THE TEXAS CAVALIERS: $25k → 16%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY: $20k → 16%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $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%THE TEXAS CAVALIERS: $5k → 16%BANDERA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 12%THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%FRONTIER TIMES MUSEUM: $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
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • BP
    Brackenridge Park Conservancy
    3× · 2019–2021 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • FT
    Frontier Times Museum
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +161%
  • 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
  • SS
    SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -429%
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 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation; 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 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. 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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

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 Fb Doane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fb Doane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    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
    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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