How much does Hixon Family Foundation give?

Hixon Family Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $176,634 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Hixon Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (62%), Arts & Culture (13%), Animals (6%).

Who are Hixon Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance ($239k), Witte Museum ($120k), National Parks Conservation Association ($71k).

Does Hixon Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hixon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hixon Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Shield-Ayres Foundation, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800.

Where is Hixon Family Foundation based?

Hixon Family Foundation is based in TX.

Hixon Family Foundation

Hixon Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$177k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$936kArts & Culture$198kAnimals$87kHealth$68kPublic Benefit$42kEducation$24kRecreation & Sports$23kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k64 grants · $141k
$10k–50k3 grants · $36k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 98% of reported assets are held in Stocks Wells Fargo.

Largest grants
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
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND	$5,000
SAVE OUR SPRINGS ALLIANCE	$5,000
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO	$4,130
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDENS	$3,500
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$3,500
Individual grant recipient	$3,099
BIG BEND CONSERVANCY	$3,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 95 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

+23%

Still filing today

60%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsOther

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

GE
GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE
8× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +179%
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +51%
PH
PHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY
4× · 2017–2020 · $57k · revenue +12%

Funded once

BN
BB NPCA NATIONAL PARKS CONSERV ASSOC
2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
LC
LAST CHANCE FOREVER-BIRD OF PREY CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2022 · $10k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%

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.

Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

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…

Environment

Coastal Prairie Conservancy

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…

Environment

Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

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.

Environment

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy provides community leadership for the development and active use of Guadalupe River Park & Garden through education, advocacy and stewardship.

Environment

Trinity Park Conservancy

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…

Community Improvement

Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

Shoal Creek Conservancy

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…

Environment

Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

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.

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Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 152 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

79/81

Grantees still filing

61/81

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$587,055Other$552,887Arts & Culture$186,553Recreation & Sports$70,999Health$54,823Civil Rights$36,880Education$17,780

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 FoundationTX49.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home