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GAC Halff Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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 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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unicorn Centers Inc; 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 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. 17 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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

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

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 27 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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