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GAC Halff Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$720k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Arts & Culture$2.0MReligion$322kHuman Services$57kEducation$13kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$10kRecreation & Sports$9kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
San Antonio Museum of Art$500,000
Episcopal Diocese of West Texas$200,000
St Francis of Assisi$10,000
St Francis of Assisi$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $19k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Family Violence Prevention Services: $3k → 16%Good Samaritan Community Services: $5k → 16%Guide Dogs of Texas Inc: $3k → 16%Family Service Association: $6k → 16%Morningside Ministries: $3k → 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 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 Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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2
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
3
San Antonio Report

Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.

Arts & Culture
4
San Angelo Civic Theater Inc

The mission of san angelo civic theatre is to culturally enrich, educate, and entertain through the art of theatre and theatrical performance and to encourage community participation in all aspects thereof.

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5
Mission Able

Mobilize volunteers or skilled professionals to meet needs that primarily serve the san marcos, texas area.

Housing & Shelter
6
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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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
Fiesta San Antonio CommissionInc

To plan,promote,and preserve Fiesta San Antonio through the support of non-profit, civic and patriotic participating member organization in presenting a safe educational, annual celebration of diverse heritage,culture and spirit of the San…

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9
Symphony Society of San Antonio

The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach

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10
Disabilitysa dba Fiesta Especial Disabilitysa Creative Services

The mission of disabilitysa is to educate, advance, and engage people with disabiities by building connections, exchanging information, creating opportunities, and strengthening our disability community in the greater san antonio area.…

Human Services
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
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unicorn Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Public Radio. 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

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 27 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCNAY ART MUSEUM — $1,005,000 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUMSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART+2 more — $4,500 · Arts & CultureDIOCESE OF WEST TEXAS — $300,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF WEST TE…Tobin Center — $32,500 · OtherTobin CenterSt Francis of Assisi — $20,000 · Other+11 more — $46,500 · Other+11 moreFamily Service Association of San Antonio Inc — $6,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $5,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES — $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $10,000 · ReligionTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyKinetic Kids Inc — $4,000 · Recreation & SportsBRIGHTON CENTER — $2,500 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,009,500Other$399,000Human Services$18,500Religion$10,000Philanthropy$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,000Education$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $1,005,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service Association of San Antonio Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNICORN CENTERS INC — $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Marcia & Otto Koehler…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Faye L & William L Co…Charitable Foundation…Betty Stieren Kelso F…John L Santikos Chari…John R & Greli N Less…The Charity Ball Asso…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Marietta K Randall Fo…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Marietta K Randall Foundation Trust

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 GAC Halff 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 27 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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