· Private foundation
La Brasada Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TSCRA Leadership Development Foundation | $2,000,000 |
| The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas | $250,000 |
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $250,000 |
| The Rey Feo Scholarship Fund | $150,000 |
| South Texas Recovery Foundation | $100,000 |
| Charity Ball Ass of San Antonio | $50,000 |
| Forgotten Angels | $50,000 |
| Sky High for Kids | $25,000 |
| Witte Museum | $20,000 |
| St Frances by the Lake Episcopal Church | $10,000 |
| Majesty Outdoors | $10,000 |
| Borderlands Research Institute | $10,000 |
| South Texas Children's Home Ministries | $10,000 |
| Sabinal Alumni | $10,000 |
| Texas Brigades | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- PVPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +84%
- TUTrinity University2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
- THTHE HERITAGE FAMILY SCHOOL3× · 2021–2023 · $175k · revenue ×112
Funded once
- TMTEXAS MILITARY INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- SASan Antonio Academyone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- ETEPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWESTone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To improve the cattle raising industry in texas and the southwest through education, market inspection, law enforcement and other member services.
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
The baylor oral health foundation was established to foster and support the activities and program of the texas a&m university college of dentistry (the college) to provide financial support for excellence at the college, and to advance…
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The association exists to advance the science of jurisprudence; to facilitate and improve the administration of justice; to maintain and to elevate standards of professional conduct; to increase professional skills through regular…
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers' Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 66 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
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 TSCRA LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FAMILY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS RECOVERY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alpine Public Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAJESTY OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds ST BENEDICTS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Forgotten Angels Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY NETWORK TO END HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds SABINAL ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Marshall Steves Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Bh-Eh Foundation · Impetus Foundation · Nelson Puett Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd 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 La Brasada 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.
- Berkshire Choral International Inc — 1% 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.
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