How much did Impetus Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of Impetus Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

bank

2019

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2020

education

2021

—

2022

alamomuseum

2023

purpseartgenaralmuseumcatholic

2024

art museumcancermusicalgenaralhallcatholicreport

2025

babyfkaantonio hispanicpurpseartcancerchildren's

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $63k
$10k–50k34 grants · $579k
$50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
$250k+11 grants · $11M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$346M

Total assets

Largest grants

Tecnologico de Monterrey Foundation$3,000,000
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County$2,406,356
UT Health Science Center of San Antonio$2,000,000
St Mary's Hall$837,500
Friends of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Foundation$540,600
US Fund for UNICEF$533,000
Classical Musical Institute$500,000
Bexar Co Performing Arts Ctr$500,000
Haven For Hope Bexar County$500,000
Teach for America San Antonio$312,500
Sacred Heart Catholic Church$250,000
ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION$210,000
City Year San Antonio$200,000
San Antonio Report fka Rivard Report$116,000
World Affairs Council$100,625

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $603k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$73M · 64 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$73M

$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+22%

Still filing today

33%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

Davidson College
4× · 2018–2025 · $8.4M · revenue +4%
TU
Trinity University
2× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +20%
SM
St Mary's University
3× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +18%

Funded once

WA
World Affairs Council of America
one grant, 2021 · $10M
TD
Tecnological de Monterrey
one grant, 2023 · $3.0M
UF
US FUND UNICEF
one grant, 2021 · $1.1M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education

The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improve health care, advance biomedical science, and provide leadership & active stewardship of our land and other assets.

Health

Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, texas association of business (tab) is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab…

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Texas Tribune Inc

Texas' member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization dedicated to providing news on politics, policy and current events.

Education

The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To provide professional investment management and related services for the funds under management and control of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.

Education

Southern Methodist University

The Primary mission of the university is education through research and teaching by creating and imparting knowledge that will shape citizens who contribute to their communities and lead professions in a global society.

Education

Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education

Houston Botanic Garden

Enriching life through discovery, education, and conservation of the natural environment.

Environment

Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The World Affairs Council of San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is Davidson College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/58

the rest of the field

12%

6,955/56,715

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.

05the grantee network

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/56

Grantees still filing

44/56

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$73,316,597Education$13,131,606Arts & Culture$5,981,200International$3,781,001Philanthropy$3,406,356Recreation & Sports$665,000Human Services$602,500

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX47.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Charles Butt Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable

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 organisation Impetus 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Anchor Bay Community Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~75 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383255728 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Anchor Bay Community Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 75 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Impetus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Impetus Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Impetus Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Impetus Foundation?

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Impetus Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Impetus Foundation?

More from the funding graph