· Private foundation
Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of JACK AND DORIS SMOTHERS AND BUD SMOTHERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH TEXAS | $52,500 |
| UTSA COLLEGE OF SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| BIGGS INSTITUTE FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE | $20,000 |
| FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $10,000 |
| WITTE MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| UTSA | $7,500 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART SA (BLUE STAR) | $6,000 |
| UTSA | $5,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS | $5,000 |
| MORGAN'S WONDERLAND | $5,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| GEMINI INK | $3,750 |
| TEXAS FREEDOM EDUCATION NETWORK | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $58k) 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.
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.
62 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- MSMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +14%
- FVFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +58%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO7× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SAone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SSSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ARTS & CRAFTSone grant, 2022 · $13k
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 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 mission of Texas Vignette is to promote, support, and connect women in the arts in Texas. In service of our mission, Texas Vignette presents an annual exhibition exclusively featuring works by women artists from Texas in order to…
Public arts funding
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.
Contemporary at blue star inspires the creative genius in us all by nurturing artists through innovative contemporary art.
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mind Science Foundation. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 141 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 Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARTPACE INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MILL ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINARIA ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SALA DIAZ INC ↗
- Who funds ATTICUS CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSENBERG LIBRARY ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso 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 Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial 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.
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.