· Private foundation
Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of JOAN AND HERB KELLEHER CHARITABLE 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.
The 35 grants below total $2,198,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,329,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $131,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $675k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| I GIFT - RUTH & JOHN AGATHER FUND | $250,000 |
| I GIFT FBO THE LISA & MIKE KELLEHER FUND | $250,000 |
| I GIFT FBO THE KATHY & DAVID KELLEHER FUND | $250,000 |
| TEXAS AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| MAGIK THEATRE | $100,000 |
| GRAND TETONS NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| RENO AIR RACING FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WEST TEXAS | $50,000 |
| ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS | $50,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WEST TEXAS | $50,000 |
| MITCHELL LAKE AUDUBON CENTER | $10,000 |
| MCNAY ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k 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
- TUTrinity University4× · 2020–2023 · $418k · revenue +62%
- MCMAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE3× · 2020–2023 · $205k · revenue +38%
- PTPathways to Aviation4× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +95% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- GTGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARKone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MCMETA CHURCH INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
- AHANTONIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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…
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,…
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
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.
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 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…
To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unicorn Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pathways to Aviation. 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 41 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 60 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.
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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 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · McCombs Foundation Inc · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Alfred S Gage Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable 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.
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