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Holt Atherton Educational Foundation at a glance

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Holt Atherton Educational Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$54kHealth$38kArts & Culture$32kEnvironment$16kScience & Tech$13kYouth Development$13kInternational$11kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$412k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$3,000
THE MCNAY ART MUSEUM$2,500
TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM$2,000
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION$1,750
THE WITTE MUSEUM$1,500
GREATER SA AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS$1,500
KLRN$1,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$1,000
BRIGHTON CENTER$1,000
AUSTIN FILM SOCIETY$1,000
CLASSIC LEAR JET FOUNDATION$1,000
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL CENTER$1,000
SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SA$1,000
THE TRAIL CONSERVANCY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP ARANZAZU: $625 → 17%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES: $500 → 16%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $500 → 16%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $500 → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $500 → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $500 → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $500 → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $500 → 10%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $300 → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 10%PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 44 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
47

Total granted

$160k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+5%

Still filing today

50%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • SM
    SAINT MARYS HALL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +46%
  • MS
    MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • FS
    Film Society of Austin Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • RO
    RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • U
    UTSA
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • UH
    UT HEALTH MD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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.

1
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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2
Lone Star Flight Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Botanic Garden

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

Environment
4
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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5
Texas Academy of Family Physicians

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.

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6
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
7
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
8
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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9
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
10
Uatx

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,…

Education
11
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit
12
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

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.…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 103 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $10,375 · OtherMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATIONLEAD: $9,750 · OtherLEADUTSA DEPT OF WRITING DIVISION: $8,000 · OtherUTSA DEPT OF WRITING DIVISIONSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL CENTER: $6,500 · OtherRIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherCULVER MILITARY ACADEMY: $5,000 · Other+68 more: $94,988 · Other+68 moreSAINT MARYS HALL INC: $13,250 · EducationSAINT MARYS HA…Small Steps Nurturing Center: $4,250 · EducationSmall Steps Nu…LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS: $4,000 · EducationLETTING EVERYO…BRIGHTON CENTER: $2,500 · EducationBRIGHTON CENTE…LOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION: $2,300 · EducationLOUISE H BATZ …YES Prep Public Schools Inc: $1,250 · EducationMEEKER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationFilm Society of Austin Inc: $6,100 · Arts & CultureFilm Soci…MCNAY ART MUSEUM: $5,875 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART…CLASSIC LEAR JET FOUNDATION: $3,300 · Arts & CultureCLASSIC L…Witte Museum: $2,750 · Arts & CultureWitte Mus…ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $350 · Arts & CulturePlanned Parenthood South Texas: $4,000 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $3,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $600 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $8,500 · Science & TechTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $1,000 · Science & TechGENAUSTIN: $4,300 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $1,800 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $1,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu Inc: $625 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $500 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $500 · Human ServicesAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,100 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE MARATHON FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$139,613Education$28,550Arts & Culture$19,375Health$12,100Science & Tech$9,500Human Services$8,725Philanthropy$7,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MARYS HALL INC: $13,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $10,375 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFilm Society of Austin Inc: $6,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $5,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $4,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $4,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSIC LEAR JET FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWitte Museum: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGUADALUPE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK AND HOMEMAKERS SHOW: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $1,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fay School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANITARIAN PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetArboretum San Antonio: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHill Country Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND OFF: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF TEXAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARATHON FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MILL: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $300 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.

  • 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 DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Alice Kleberg Reynold…Mays Family FoundationAustin Community Foun…William Knox Holt Fou…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…The Brown Foundation …The Jesse H and Susan…Greater Houston Commu…The Jeanie Wyatt Fami…Jack and Doris Smothe…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX28.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Holt Atherton Educational Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Holt Atherton Educational 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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