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HB Family 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.

$973k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$292kHuman Services$149kEducation$135kFood & Nutrition$71kInternational$50kRecreation & Sports$49kYouth Development$47kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $698k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation Inc$125,000
South Texas Recovery Foundation Inc$50,000
Team Rubicon$50,000
Meals on Wheels San Antonio$40,000
Our Lady of Grace Catholic School$40,000
San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc$38,900
Texas A&M Foundation$30,000
Atascosa Health Center Inc$30,000
Brighton Center$25,000
St Jude's Ranch for Children Texas Region Inc (SJRC Texas)$25,000
South Texas Recovery Foundation Inc$25,000
Children's Association for Maximum Potential Inc (CAMP)$25,000
Atascosa County Live Stock Show$22,150
Respite Care of San Antonio Incorporated$20,000
The Salvation Army of San Antonio$20,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%St Jude's Ranch for Children Texas Region Inc (SJRC Texas): $25k → 7%Sea City Work Camp Inc: $10k → 17%Respite Care of San Antonio Incorporated: $20k → 16%CASA of South Texas: $10k → 16%Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc: $10k → 16%Mission Road Developmental Center: $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 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
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
2
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
3
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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5
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
6
Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc

Children's advocacy centers of texas, inc. (cactx) is the statewide organization for its 70 children's advocacy centers (cac's) across texas. cactx leads efforts, in partnership with investigatory and prosecution agencies, to pursue…

Crime & Legal
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
Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.

Human Services
9
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
10
Behavioral Health Solutions of South Texas

To develop and implement effective age-appropriate, consumer-driven, evidence-based services to prevent and reduce substance use and strengthen mental wellness across the southernmost Texas communities.

Human Services
11
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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12
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Road Developmental Center and the most unlike its peers is Hill District Grandstand Show. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare System Foundatio…Child & Family Support Serv…San Antonio Community Organ…Affordable Housing Developm…Military & Veteran Support …Agricultural Education Orga…Faith-Based Health and Huma…Charter and Independent Sch…Community Recreation & Memb…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr16%6%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr17%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr16%12%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr11%38%35–55yr17%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
14%
1,255/8,971

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 45 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
11/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS — $3,025,390 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS+21 more — $400,450 · Other+21 moreDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation — $125,000 · PhilanthropySan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyHILL DISTRICT GRANDSTAND SHOW — $15,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH TEXAS RECOVERY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $75,000 · HealthAtascosa Health Center Inc — $30,000 · HealthTEXAS DIAPER BANK — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthSJRC TEXAS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesMISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCasa of South Texas Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesSEA CITY WORK CAMP INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEXTTALK — $6,000 · Human ServicesTEAM RUBICON INC — $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJOURDANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTexas A&M Foundation — $30,000 · EducationBRIGHTON CENTER — $25,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $10,000 · EducationUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitSOUND OFF — $20,000 · Public BenefitCOMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC — $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$3,425,840Philanthropy$160,000Health$122,000Human Services$101,000Public Safety & Disaster$70,000Education$65,000Public Benefit$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS RECOVERY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC — $48,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAtascosa Health Center Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtascosa County Livestock Show Inc — $22,150 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFER PATH FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUND OFF — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRODEO AUSTIN — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS DIAPER BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF BEE LIVE OAK & MCMULLEN COUNTIES TEXAS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMBAT MARINE OUTDOORS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILL DISTRICT GRANDSTAND SHOW — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNUECES COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION INC — $10,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISTIC TREATMENT CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCasa of South Texas Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA CITY WORK CAMP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEXTTALK — $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJOURDANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,000 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…The TND Family Founda…Harvey E Najim Charit…St Luke's Lutheran He…The Texas Cavaliers C…Faye L & William L Co…The Charity Ball Asso…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Elizabeth Huth Coates…John L Santikos Chari…Greater Houston Commu…Tres Grace Family Fou…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · The TND Family Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Tres Grace Family 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 HB Family 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%4%8%15%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
    11report 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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to HB Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to HB Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 45 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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