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John L Santikos Charitable Foundation
The principle purposes of the john l. Santikos charitable foundation are to provide support for the san antonio area foundation and to provide support for other charities which the san antonio area foundation would otherwise support.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2020
- 76
- Grants FY2020
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2020
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of John L Santikos Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to San Antonio Area Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year John L Santikos Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 73 organizations, $8M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2020
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2020
- $2,092,260
- Organizations funded a year
- 73 to 126
- FY2018 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2020
- 4
- Total assets, FY2020
- $488M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 30% of the organizations John L Santikos Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $689k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 | 73 | $6.1M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 104 | $9.4M | 53% |
| FY2018 | 126 | $9.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc | $5,717,410 | 7 | 4% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,717,410 | 7 | 0% |
| San Antonio Area Foundation | $4,200,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Culinary Health Education for Families | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Public Radio | $850,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Children's Shelter | $812,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc | $700,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio | $570,808 | 3 | 5% |
| San Antonio Botanical Garden Society Inc | $530,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Hill Country Daily Bread | $502,355 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 218 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John L Santikos Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 178 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation
How this is measured
Compare John L Santikos Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About John L Santikos Charitable Foundation
- How much does John L Santikos Charitable Foundation give?
- John L Santikos Charitable Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $8,283,309 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 126 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
- What does John L Santikos Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), International (19%), Education (9%).
- Who are John L Santikos Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc ($5.7M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($5.7M), San Antonio Area Foundation ($4.2M).
- Does John L Santikos Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John L Santikos Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County.
- Where is John L Santikos Charitable Foundation based?
- John L Santikos Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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