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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 FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
9
States reached
$297M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$837,500
Friends of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Foundation$540,600
US Fund for UNICEF$533,000
Bexar Co Performing Arts Ctr$500,000
Haven For Hope Bexar County$500,000
Classical Musical Institute$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
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $603k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Touch Foundation: $100k → 17%Christian Assistance Ministry: $3k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $500k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 65 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
55

Total granted

$77M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+11%

Still filing today

52%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHealthHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $22M · revenue +18%
  • Davidson College
    4× · 2018–2025 · $8.4M · revenue +52%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $7.4M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue +95%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M
  • UF
    US FUND UNICEF
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M
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
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
2
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, 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 develops a climate in texas which…

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3
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
4
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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5
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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8
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
9
Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans

Aama's mission is to inspire and empower latinos to pursue and achieve their potential and achieve success. aama's ultimate goal is that all latinos will be able to participate fully in the economic and civic success of our community. the…

Human Services
10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.

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12
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Autism Service Center of San Antonio Dba Autism Community Network. 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

82 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. 82 of the 159 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
45/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $22,031,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONUT Health Science Center of San Antonio: $4,035,000 · OtherUT Health Science Center of San AntonioIndividual grant recipient: $3,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTecnologico de Monterrey Foundation: $3,000,000 · OtherTecnologico de Monterrey FoundationHaven For Hope Bexar County: $2,500,000 · Other+100 more: $18,101,471 · Other+100 moreWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA: $10,025,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COU…SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $3,360,001 · InternationalSCHOOL YEAR ABROA…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,333,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUN…+5 more: $559,026 · InternationalDavidson College: $8,421,606 · EducationDavidson CollegeTrinity University: $2,010,000 · EducationTrinity Universi…Teach for America Inc: $1,480,000 · EducationTeach for Americ…University of the Incarnate Word: $1,015,000 · EducationUniversity of th…ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $1,010,000 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES F…TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Education+4 more: $205,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $7,406,356 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…ANCHOR BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $700,000 · PhilanthropyANCHOR BAY…+13 more: $830,000 · Philanthropy+13 moreTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $4,001,200 · Arts & CultureRemember the Alamo Foundation: $1,020,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $505,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $600,600 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 · HealthCROSSPOINT INC: $65,000 · Health+3 more: $45,000 · HealthHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $1,550,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$52,667,471International$15,277,027Education$14,641,606Philanthropy$8,936,356Arts & Culture$6,026,200Health$1,785,600Housing & Shelter$1,550,000

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 budgetDavidson College: $8,421,606 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $7,406,356 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $4,001,200 over 5y, 31% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $3,360,001 over 4y, 25% of budgetTrinity University: $2,010,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $1,550,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,480,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,333,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's University: $1,105,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $1,020,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $1,015,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS EXES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,010,500 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $1,010,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetANCHOR BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $700,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $600,600 over 3y, 21% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $505,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCHILDSAFE: $500,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $220,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO: $176,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $140,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy: $120,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER: $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOLDEN VALLEY BANK COMMUNITY: $110,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTOUCH HEALTH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWitte Museum: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $85,526 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCROSSPOINT INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $52,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD SPANISH MISSIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.0% 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 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's University ↗
  • Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS EXES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANCHOR BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAFE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗

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…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Charitable Foundation…The Marshall Steves F…Betty Stieren Kelso F…John L Santikos Chari…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Faye L & William L Co…Nustar FoundationJohn R & Greli N Less…Marcia & Otto Koehler…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Impetus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impetus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 159 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home