How much does Impetus Foundation give?

Impetus Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $14,144,829 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Impetus Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), International (13%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Impetus Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association ($22M), World Affairs Councils of America ($10M), Davidson College ($8.4M).

Does Impetus Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Impetus 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 Impetus Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100.

Where is Impetus Foundation based?

Impetus Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Impetus 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.

$14M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 84
Grants FY2025: 45
Organizations funded FY2024: 44%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $3,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 45; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $297M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Impetus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	83	$14M	40%
FY2024	45	$7.8M	44%
FY2023	33	$12M	61%
FY2022	24	$11M	63%
FY2021	19	$22M	58%
FY2020	19	$11M	42%
FY2019	14	$8.7M	43%
FY2018	19	$8.3M	74%

95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$42MInternational$13MArts & Culture$9.4MPhilanthropy$9.1MHealth$7.3MHuman Services$3.8MScience & Tech$3.1MHousing & Shelter$1.6MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association	$22,031,000	5	n/a
World Affairs Councils of America	$10,025,000	1	n/a
Davidson College	$8,421,606	4	1%
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County	$7,406,356	6	5%
Texas Public Radio	$4,001,200	5	31%
School Year Abroad Inc	$3,360,001	4	25%
Trinity University	$2,010,000	2	1%
Haven for Hope of Bexar County	$1,550,000	3	2%
Teach for America Inc	$1,480,000	6	0%
United States Fund for Unicef	$1,333,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Impetus Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association	$22,031,000	5	n/a
World Affairs Councils of America	$10,025,000	1	n/a
Davidson College	$8,421,606	4	1%
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County	$7,406,356	6	5%
Texas Public Radio	$4,001,200	5	31%
School Year Abroad Inc	$3,360,001	4	25%
Trinity University	$2,010,000	2	1%
Haven for Hope of Bexar County	$1,550,000	3	2%
Teach for America Inc	$1,480,000	6	0%
United States Fund for Unicef	$1,333,000	4	0%
St Mary's University	$1,105,000	3	1%
Remember the Alamo Foundation	$1,020,000	2	16%
University of the Incarnate Word	$1,015,000	3	0%
Texas Exes Scholarship Foundation	$1,010,500	9	3%
Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc	$1,010,000	5	3%
Archdiocese of San Antonio	$1,005,000	2	n/a
Christus Children's Foundation	$1,000,000	2	4%
Anchor Bay Community Foundation	$700,000	1	78%
Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation	$600,600	3	21%
Morgan's Wonderland	$525,000	2	n/a
San Antonio Museum of Art	$505,000	2	5%
Childsafe	$500,000	1	5%
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio Inc	$500,000	4	n/a
Texas Restaurant Association Education Foundation Inc	$500,000	1	17%
Sacred Heart Catholic Church	$300,000	2	n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$220,000	2	0%
Yes Our Kids Can	$200,000	1	n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc	$200,000	2	0%
The World Affairs Council of San Antonio	$176,000	2	21%
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation	$140,000	3	3%
Brackenridge Park Conservancy	$120,000	3	12%
Brighton Center	$110,000	4	0%
Golden Valley Bank Community	$110,000	1	2%
San Antonio Children's Museum	$110,000	3	1%
Autism Service Center of San Antonio Dba Autism Community Network	$100,000	1	3%
Touch Health Inc	$100,000	1	4%
Witte Museum	$100,000	1	1%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust	$100,000	1	1%
United Way Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Baby2baby	$100,000	1	n/a
San Antonio Food Bank	$100,000	1	0%
Friends of Fondation de France Inc	$85,526	2	1%
United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc	$75,000	1	2%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$75,000	1	0%
Musical Bridges Around the World Inc	$75,000	1	5%
United Way of Greater Houston	$75,000	1	0%
Crosspoint Inc	$65,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of South Texas Inc	$52,500	2	2%
Texas State History Museum Foundation	$50,000	2	2%
Feeding Texas	$50,000	1	0%
Old Spanish Missions Inc	$50,000	1	8%
San Antonio Area Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Team Rubicon Inc	$50,000	1	0%
National Roofing Foundation	$50,000	1	5%
Foreign Policy Association Inc	$45,000	2	1%
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Meals on Wheels San Antonio	$30,000	2	0%
University Health Foundation	$30,000	1	n/a
Donorschooseorg	$25,000	1	0%
The Holdsworth Center	$25,000	1	0%
McNay Art Museum	$25,000	2	0%
San Antonio-Mexican Friendship Council Inc	$25,000	1	9%
Childrens Ballet of San Antonio	$25,000	1	5%
The Opera San Antonio Dba Opera San An	$25,000	1	1%
Feeding the Gulf Coast	$25,000	1	n/a
The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Oblate School of Theology	$20,000	1	0%
Hemisfair Conservancy	$20,000	1	n/a
San Pedro Playhouse	$10,000	1	n/a
San Antonio Zoological Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Clarity Child Guidance Center	$10,000	1	0%
Texas Biomedical Forum	$10,000	1	1%
Yale University	$10,000	1	n/a
The University of Texas Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Yale University	$10,000	1	n/a
Texas Association of Museums	$5,000	1	n/a
Retina Foundation of the Southwest	$5,000	1	n/a
Aid the Silent	$5,000	1	0%
Project Quest Inc	$5,000	2	0%
San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness	$3,500	2	0%
Ellis Island Honors Society Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Christian Assistance Ministry	$2,500	1	0%
Los Compadres de San Antonio	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.

Impetus Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 63.

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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 FoundationTX62.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · The Marshall Steves Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nustar Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Marcia & Otto Koehler 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.

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About Impetus Foundation

How much does Impetus Foundation give?: Impetus Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $14,144,829 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Impetus Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), International (13%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Impetus Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association ($22M), World Affairs Councils of America ($10M), Davidson College ($8.4M).
Does Impetus Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Impetus 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 Impetus Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100.
Where is Impetus Foundation based?: Impetus Foundation is based in TX.