· Private foundation
Holt Atherton Educational Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of HOLT ATHERTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $3,000 |
| THE MCNAY ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM | $2,000 |
| MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| GREATER SA AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS | $1,500 |
| THE WITTE MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| CLASSIC LEAR JET FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SA | $1,000 |
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BRIGHTON CENTER | $1,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| MEEKER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KLRN | $1,000 |
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, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 27 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- SMSAINT MARYS HALL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +46%
- MSMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +14%
- FSFilm Society of Austin Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- RORIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
- UUTSAone grant, 2024 · $4k
- UHUT HEALTH MD ANDERSONone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
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…
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 103 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 SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds Film Society of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SETTLEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC LEAR JET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds The Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK AND HOMEMAKERS SHOW ↗
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 · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Mays Family Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · William Knox Holt Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Jeanie Wyatt Family Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial 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 Holt Atherton Educational 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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