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John L Santikos Charitable Foundation
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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $954k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $2,092,260 |
| CITY EDUCATION PARTNERS | $2,000,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC | $825,331 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $604,200 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA) | $221,131 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO | $187,500 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC | $125,000 |
| FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| ROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $63,757 |
| SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK | $56,250 |
| SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN GATEWAYS | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO | $50,000 |
| ARTPACE SAN ANTONIO INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN ANTONIO | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2020, 29 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +89%- ACALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2023 · $700k · revenue +205%
- HCHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD3× · 2018–2023 · $502k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CHCULINARY HEALTH EDUCATION FOR FAMILIESone grant, 2019 · $2.0M
- YOYES OUR KIDS CANone grant, 2018 · $250k
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $225k · revenue +80%
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 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.
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.
The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.
The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…
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.
To educate qualified individuals of public benefits that they may be entitled to. we accomplish this by working with local city, state, and federal agencies for the purpose of outreach and verification work. recently we have focused mainly…
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trl Productions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
195 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. 195 of the 222 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Madonna Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AVANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAY SI ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds PUTTING AN END TO ABUSE THROUGH COMMUNITY EFFORTS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SA2020 ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOR GROWTH ON THE EASTSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Gateways ↗
- Who funds CARVER DEVELOPMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds MERCED HOUSING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ARTPACE INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER HOUSE SA ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
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 · 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
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 John L Santikos Charitable 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
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.