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John and Rita Feik Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John and Rita Feik Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$359k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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$1.6MArts & Culture$607kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Benefit$9kRecreation & Sports$4kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO$300,000
THE WITTE MUSEUM$50,000
CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR SOCIETY$8,500
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $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 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 Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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2
Alamo Trust Inc

The organization is to be operated exclusively to preserve and restore the alamo complex and to educate and inspire visitors on the history of all those who lived, fought, and died there.

Arts & Culture
3
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
4
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
5
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
6
San Antonio Botanical Garden Society Inc

The mission of the san antonio botanical garden is "enriching lives through plants and nature." nowhere else in the south-central texas region are people and plants brought together in such a biologically diverse museum of plants and…

Environment
7
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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8
San Antonio Report

Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.

Arts & Culture
9
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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10
St Anthony Catholic School Charitable Foundation

To support and benefit st. anthony catholic school.

Philanthropy
11
San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society

Maintains a genealogical reference library, publishes newsletters website, print books and materials on genealogical topics, operates a center for educational programs and seminars

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12
Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Children's Museum; the most unlike its peers is Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO: $1,542,744 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO+7 more: $45,575 · OtherWitte Museum: $586,227 · Arts & CultureWitte Museum+4 more: $18,090 · Arts & CultureCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America: $8,500 · Public BenefitAUGUSTHEART: $3,600 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,588,319Arts & Culture$604,317Public Benefit$8,500Health$3,600Human Services$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWitte Museum: $586,227 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $4,590 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO: $4,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAUGUSTHEART: $3,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE OF FLOWERS ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLANDA GARDENS CONSERVANCY: $2,400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Harvey E Najim Charit…Greater Houston Commu…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
San Antonio Area FoundationTX15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 John and Rita Feik Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Rita Feik Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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