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Ksl Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$403k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Animals$2.0MArts & Culture$666kEducation$255kPhilanthropy$176kRecreation & Sports$65kHuman Services$64kYouth Development$34kHealth$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$10,876
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO$100,000
SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$43,175
THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION$38,800
REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION$26,500
RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INCORPORATED$24,200
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY$15,000
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$10,876
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS$10,000
SPURS GIVE$9,120
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC$8,750
MCNAY ART MUSEUM$7,500
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$1,500
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 (FY23–25, $83k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INCORPORATED: $25k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INCORPORATED: $24k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INCORPORATED: $15k → 16%SPURS GIVE: $9k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 13 repeat orgs$522k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$2.8M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +27%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $103k · revenue +12%
  • RC
    Respite Care of San Antonio Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • MH
    MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +4%
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +42%
  • HF
    Haven for Hope of Bexar County
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -6%
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.

04Its 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.

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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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2
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
3
University of Texas At San Antonio Alumni Association

To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…

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4
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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5
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
6
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
7
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
8
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
9
Symphony Society of San Antonio

The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach

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10
Arboretum San Antonio

Arboretum San Antonio (ASA), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2021, is building a world-class arboretum on the former Republic Golf Course in the heart of San Antonios historic Southside. The first in San Antonio and the…

Environment
11
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Orchestras of San Antonio; the most unlike its peers is The Studio Museum in Harlem. 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

29 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. 29 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
11/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,010,875 · AnimalsSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $350,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM …SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $103,175 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO CHILDRE…Remember the Alamo Foundation: $58,000 · Arts & CultureRemember the Alamo …THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM I…+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCHARITY BALL LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $116,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $38,800 · PhilanthropyYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO: $100,000 · OtherCHRISTUS SANTA ROSA-SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC: $10,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $23,750 · OtherHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $14,620 · OtherNEW DAY ADVENTURES IN RECOVERY: $10,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $8,750 · Other+7 more: $20,500 · OtherRespite Care of San Antonio Inc: $64,200 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPURS GIVE: $9,120 · Human ServicesSOUND OFF: $20,000 · Public BenefitCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America: $8,750 · Public Benefit
Animals$2,010,875Arts & Culture$566,175Education$255,000Philanthropy$210,300Other$207,620Human Services$83,320Public Benefit$28,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $2,010,875 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $350,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHARITY BALL LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $116,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $103,175 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc: $64,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation: $58,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC: $23,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND OFF: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHRISTUS SANTA ROSA-SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $14,620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW DAY ADVENTURES IN RECOVERY: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSPURS GIVE: $9,120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America: $8,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $8,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALAMO AREA COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET SAN ANTONIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChild Legacy International Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $500 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.

Elizabeth Huth Coates…John R & Greli N Less…Mays Family FoundationNancy Smith Hurd Foun…Charitable Foundation…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Faye L & William L Co…The Brown Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…San Antonio Area Foun…McCombs Foundation Inc
Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992TX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Mays Family Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · McCombs Foundation Inc

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 Ksl Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ksl Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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