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Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial 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.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$396kArts & Culture$327kEnvironment$88kHuman Services$75kScience & Tech$62kEducation$46kCivil Rights$44kCommunity Improvement$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH TEXAS$25,000
BIGGS INSTITUTE FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE$20,000
UTSA COLLEGE OF SCIENCE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION$15,000
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
ARTPACE$11,000
YWCA$10,000
CONTEMPORARY ART SA (BLUE STAR)$6,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D SOUTHERN TEXAS CHAPTER$5,000
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION$5,000
SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL$5,000
AFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS$5,000
TEXAS FREEDOM EDUCATION NETWORK$3,500
MCNAY ART MUSEUM$3,000
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, $63k) 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%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $10k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $8k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $8k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $5k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $3k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $3k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $3k → 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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 69 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

69 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
72

Total granted

$1.2M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+58%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 & CultureCivil RightsEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MS
    MIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +14%
  • FV
    FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +58%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    8× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SA
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • SS
    SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ARTS & CRAFTS
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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3
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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4
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
5
Texas Vignette

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…

Arts & Culture
6
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
8
Contemporary Art for San Antonio

Contemporary at blue star inspires the creative genius in us all by nurturing artists through innovative contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
9
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.

—
10
Texas Cultural Trust Council

Public arts funding

Philanthropy
11
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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12
Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Through unique collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts, the mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative visions throughout Southeast Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio River Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 147 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
48/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTSA COLLEGE OF SCIENCE: $100,000 · OtherUTSA COLLEGE OF SCIENCEMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $89,885 · OtherMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATIONSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL SOCIETY: $53,500 · OtherSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL SOCIETYPLANNED PARENTHOOD TRUST: $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD TRUSTPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SAN ANTONIO: $45,000 · OtherBIGGS INSTITUTE FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SA: $30,000 · OtherAFTER SCHOOL ALL STARS: $28,500 · Other+97 more: $377,695 · Other+97 moreTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $57,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIOMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $43,050 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUMARTPACE INC (AUDIT): $39,000 · Arts & CultureARTPACE INC (AUDIT)SCIENCE MILL: $27,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MILLSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $26,125 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBR…Witte Museum: $22,000 · Arts & CultureWitte MuseumSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $18,500 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF A…THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Arts & CultureLUMINARIA: $10,750 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $44,850 · Arts & Culture+11 morePlanned Parenthood South Texas: $132,500 · HealthPlanned Pare…TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $23,500 · HealthTEXAS BIOMED…EMPOWER HOUSE SA: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $62,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $16,815 · Civil RightsATTICUS CIRCLE: $9,000 · Civil RightsUltraViolet Education Fund: $2,500 · Civil RightsJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $2,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $13,500 · EducationThe Ann Richards School Foundation: $7,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ROSENBERG LIBRARY: $7,000 · EducationFriends of Texas Public Schools: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $15,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS: $4,500 · EnvironmentSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentDEVILS RIVER CONSERVANCY: $2,500 · Environment
Other$850,580Arts & Culture$302,275Health$162,500Human Services$64,500Civil Rights$31,315Education$29,500Environment$25,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $132,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $89,885 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $62,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $57,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $43,050 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetARTPACE INC (AUDIT): $39,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSCIENCE MILL: $27,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $26,125 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWitte Museum: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $16,815 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUMINARIA: $10,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSALA DIAZ INC: $10,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetATTICUS CIRCLE: $9,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetThe Ann Richards School Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRecipe for Success Foundation: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMorgan's Wonderland: $7,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER HOUSE SA: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIESTA CORNYATION INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK CUBE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEVILS RIVER CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGlasstire: $2,350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Report: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Texas Public Schools: $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 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 TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LUMINARIA ↗
  • Who funds SALA DIAZ INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
  • Who funds ATTICUS CIRCLE ↗

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…Elizabeth Huth Coates…The Brown Foundation …Alice Kleberg Reynold…Muriel F Siebert Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Pryor Myra Stafford C…John L Santikos Chari…Hixon Family Foundati…Charitable Foundation…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Betty Stieren Kelso F…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX54.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 147 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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