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John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324’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.

02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $5.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY$500,000
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO$300,000
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$250,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS$250,000
ROY MAAS YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC$200,000
THE CHILDRENS SHELTER$200,000
Santa Rosa Childrens Hospital$200,000
St Peter Upon the Water$200,000
HAVEN FOR HOPE$150,000
MCNAY ART MUSEUM$150,000
HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY$150,000
TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$150,000
San Antonio Food Bank$150,000
Clarity Child Guidance Center$125,000
American Cancer Society$125,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $1.5M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS INC: $25k → 16%THE CHILDRENS SHELTER: $200k → 16%Christian Assistance Ministry Inc: $125k → 16%Christian Assistance Ministry Inc: $125k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $100k → 16%THRIVE YOUTH CENTER: $30k → 16%BOYSVILLE INC: $100k → 16%BOYSVILLE INC: $80k → 16%Family Service Association of San Antonio: $125k → 16%Family Service Association of San Antonio: $125k → 16%GUARDIAN HOUSE: $100k → 16%THE CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $100k → 16%ANY BABY CAN SAN ANTONIO: $100k → 16%GUARDIAN HOUSE: $100k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO: $50k → 16%CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $10k → 16%CONNECT ABILITY: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 39 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
21

Total granted

$12M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+15%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CC
    CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +14%
  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +3%
  • HC
    HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $550k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CC
    Cibolo Center for Nature Conservation
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD
    one grant, 2023 · $271k · revenue -2%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2022 · $260k · revenue +20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
2
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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3
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

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.

Human Services
4
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
5
Sa Talent Inc Sa Works

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…

Education
6
San Anto Cultural Arts

To foster human and community development through community-based arts.

Arts & Culture
7
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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8
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
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.

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10
San Antonio Council On Alcohol and Drug Awareness

To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.

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11
San Antonio Tennis Association

Develop and promote the lifetime sport

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12
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Sa Life Academy. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr17%6%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr17%2%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr15%38%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
15%
1,088/7,125

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
34/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLY CROSS SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIO — $850,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS SCHOOL OF SAN ANTONIOMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $500,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIOSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $401,689 · OtherROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC — $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYS FND — $400,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $300,000 · OtherYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO — $300,000 · OtherSt Peter Upon the Water — $300,000 · OtherYWCA-SAN ANTONIO — $300,000 · OtherCibolo Center for Nature Conservation — $300,000 · OtherHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $490,890 · OtherHaven for Hope of Bexar County+38 more — $3,820,930 · Other+38 moreCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $800,000 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILD…TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $600,000 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDIC…SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER — $300,000 · HealthSOUTH TEXAS BL…CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $250,000 · HealthCLARITY CHILD …THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $150,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF SAN…SAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY — $100,000 · Health+2 more — $75,000 · HealthChristian Assistance Ministry — $250,000 · Human ServicesChristian A…Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc — $250,000 · Human ServicesFamily Serv…GUARDIAN HOUSE — $200,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN HO…THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDRE…BOYSVILLE INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesBOYSVILLE I…SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER — $125,000 · Human ServicesSA CHRISTIA…CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $110,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS B…House of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas — $100,000 · Human ServicesHouse of Ne…ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CA…MAGDALENA MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMAGDALENA M…+4 more — $130,000 · Human Services+4 moreWitte Museum — $500,000 · Arts & CultureWitte Museu…MCNAY ART MUSEUM — $275,000 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART M…TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $260,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLI…SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $110,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO…SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO…ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN — $100,000 · Arts & CultureALAMO PUBLI…Remember the Alamo Foundation — $100,000 · Arts & CultureRemember th…BALLET SAN ANTONIO — $100,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET SAN …ALAMEDA THEATER CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureALAMEDA THE…CONTEMPORARY ART FOR SAN ANTONIO — $75,482 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO — $650,000 · EducationBRIGHTON CENTER — $250,000 · EducationTEAMABILITY INC — $150,000 · EducationBEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART — $150,000 · EducationTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation — $90,000 · EducationSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $850,000 · AnimalsSan Antonio Pets Alive Inc — $93,191 · AnimalsANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS — $50,000 · AnimalsHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY — $550,000 · Recreation & SportsKinetic Kids Inc — $300,000 · Recreation & SportsBrackenridge Park Conservancy — $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,363,509Health$2,275,000Human Services$1,745,000Arts & Culture$1,740,482Education$1,290,000Animals$993,191Recreation & Sports$950,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $850,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO — $650,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY — $550,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $500,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWitte Museum — $500,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $490,890 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $401,689 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC — $400,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO — $300,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER — $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $275,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD — $270,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO — $260,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER — $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry — $250,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFamily Service Association of San Antonio Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGUARDIAN HOUSE — $200,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetI CARE SAN ANTONIO INC — $200,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $200,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SARAH ROBERTS FRENCH HOME — $200,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC — $180,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTEAMABILITY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALAMO AREA COUNCIL — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $110,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $110,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSALOC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNew Braunfels Youth Collaborative — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEADWATERS AT THE COMAL — $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBALLET SAN ANTONIO — $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHouse of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas — $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO — $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALAMEDA THEATER CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budget
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.

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.

Faye L & William L Co…San Antonio Area Foun…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Harvey E Najim Charit…The Texas Cavaliers C…Betty Stieren Kelso F…United Way of San Ant…Marcia & Otto Koehler…St Luke's Lutheran He…Keith M Orme and Pat …
Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable FoundationTX96.3× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

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    How do I get to John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324?

    Find your warmest path to John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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