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Hixon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Stocks Wells Fargo.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAST CHANCE FOREVER BIRD OF PREY | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $10,500 |
| GEAA (Greater Edwards Acquifer) | $10,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $5,282 |
| GEAA (Greater Edwards Acquifer) | $5,050 |
| SAVE OUR SPRINGS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO | $4,130 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $3,500 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDENS | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,099 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GEGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +179%
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +51%- PHPHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY4× · 2017–2020 · $57k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- BNBB NPCA NATIONAL PARKS CONSERV ASSOC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
- LCLAST CHANCE FOREVER-BIRD OF PREY CONSERVANCYone grant, 2022 · $10k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.
Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The conservancy is dedicated to restoring, protecting and enhancing the ecological, social and cultural vibrancy of shoal creek in austin, texas, for the people of austin by engaging the public and partnering with the community, including…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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. 81 of the 152 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Save Our Springs Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Marcos River Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds COMAL COUNTY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Hill Country Alliance ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND TEXAS CHOICE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · 80-20 Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600
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 Hixon 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.
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.
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