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Horse Creek Trust
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $30,000 |
| WITTE MUSEUM | $21,200 |
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MCNAY ART MUSEUM | $17,500 |
| Washington & Lee University | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $9,050 |
| SAINT MARY'S HALL INC | $7,500 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| San Antonio Food Bank Inc | $5,000 |
| Millsaps College | $5,000 |
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MISSION HERITAGE PARTNERS | $2,500 |
| THE DOSEUM SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 95% 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
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +183%
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +4%
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- RMREACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -7%
- SASAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +42%
- HHHERITAGE HOUSE PARTNERSone grant, 2024 · $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 museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Educational and cultural center to enrich lives through collection, study, exhibition, interpretation and celebration of visual arts.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Botanical Garden Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kerrville Perpetual Care Cemetery Association. 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 72 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 33 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 MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTPACE INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LANDA GARDENS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds LOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds KERRVILLE PERPETUAL CARE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Brown Foundation Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · San Antonio Area Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Mays 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 Horse Creek Trust 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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