· Private foundation
Judy Calder Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Tech University | $150,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $105,000 |
| Kendall County Youth Agriculture & Equestrian Center | $6,125 |
| Wings and Reins Equine Refuge | $5,000 |
| Hill Country Animal League | $5,000 |
| Kendall County Jr Livestock Association | $5,000 |
| Oasis Acres Equine Assisted Therapy Center | $5,000 |
| Wings and Reins Equine Refuge | $5,000 |
| Hill Country Youth Ranch | $5,000 |
| Hay Dude Equine Rescue | $5,000 |
| Happened by Chance Horses | $5,000 |
| Upward Transitions Therapeutic Horsemanship | $5,000 |
| Dream Walkers Equine Therapy Center | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Tracys Paws Rescue | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATexas A&M Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $963k · revenue +90%
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $125k · revenue +20%
- THTransformation House2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- HCHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREADone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -8%
- HCHILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +18%
- HCHILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +15%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
501c3 horse rescue
Prevent cruelty to animals.
Happy Trails Horse Rescue, located in Bend, Oregon, is dedicated to the protection of horses and their quality of life, to be free from abuse, neglect, abandonment, slaughter, or early euthanasia without just cause. While we strive to…
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
South texas equine sanctuary provides rehabilitation and sanctuary to horses at risk.
Animal Rescue
Hooved Animal Rescue
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
To provide safe and experienced care and shelter for neglected, abused and/or abandoned horses.
The RERIDE Quarter Horse Adoption Program offers a safe haven for displaced or unwanted registered Quarter and Paint horses Our program focuses on rehabilitation retraining and adopting horses into qualified loving homes.
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home god's neglected or abused equine through programs of shelter, adoption, education, and assistance.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Transformation House ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURE AND EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Triple H Equitherapy Center ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds Hay Dude Critter Rescue ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER DAYS HORSE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Upward Transitions Therapeutic Horsemanship ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPENED BY CHANCE HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Triple Me Mac Equine Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRACYSPAWSRESCUE ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
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 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Miramar Charitable Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Judy Calder Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judy Calder Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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