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Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$193kArts & Culture$187kHuman Services$67kHealth$43kRecreation & Sports$18kPublic Benefit$13kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$502k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
McNAY ART MUSEUM$35,000
SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY$10,000
TEXAS MILITARY INSTITUTE$10,000
ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION$5,000
HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 16%HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $13k → 16%HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $9k → 16%HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $3k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$507k · 14 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$507k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+2%

Still filing today

64%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationScience & TechAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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 CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +33%
  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM
    4× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +30%
  • AH
    ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -4%
  • SS
    SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -379%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +144%
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.

1
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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2
St Anthony Catholic School Charitable Foundation

To support and benefit st. anthony catholic school.

Philanthropy
3
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic

Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…

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4
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
5
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
San Antonio Museum of Art

The San Antonio Museum of Art brings people together with art by collecting, preserving, and presenting significant works of art representing a broad range of history and cultures, advancing human connection and understanding, and…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
San Antonio a & M Club Foundation

To promote fellowship among former students, current students, and friends of texas a&m, to spread the aggie spirit across the greater san antonio area, and to provide scholarships to bexar county students attending texas a&m university.

Education
9
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…

—
10
Mission Able

Mobilize volunteers or skilled professionals to meet needs that primarily serve the san marcos, texas area.

Housing & Shelter
11
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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12
Charity Ball Legacy Foundation Inc

The mission of the charity ball legacy foundation is to preserve and sustain the work of the charity ball association to support and enhance the quality of life for the children of bexar county.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Marys Hall Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY: $80,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO ACADEMYTEXAS MILITARY INSTITUTE: $70,000 · OtherTEXAS MILITARY INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSA AFRICAN AMERICAN COMM ARCHIVEMUS: $11,925 · OtherSA AFRICAN AMERICAN COMM ARCHIVEMUSBLOOD TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $11,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $7,500 · Other+6 more: $13,465 · Other+6 moreMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $127,499 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUMSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $37,500 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUMHOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $37,090 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE M…Christian Assistance Ministry: $20,000 · Human ServicesChristian As…MEALS ON WHEELS: $5,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHE…ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $27,500 · EducationSAINT MARYS HALL INC: $15,000 · EducationTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $28,500 · Science & TechTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $15,850 · PhilanthropySOUND OFF: $12,500 · Public Benefit
Other$216,890Arts & Culture$164,999Human Services$62,090Education$42,500Science & Tech$28,500Philanthropy$15,850Public Benefit$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $127,499 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $37,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $37,090 over 5y, 26% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $28,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry: $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $15,850 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT MARYS HALL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND OFF: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM ↗
  • Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Christian Assistance Ministry ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗

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.

The Jesse H and Susan…Mays Family FoundationSan Antonio Area Foun…The Brown Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…Roger L and Laura D Z…The Marshall Steves F…Impetus FoundationElizabeth Huth Coates…Robert Tucker Hayes F…The Phoenix Charitabl…The Nancy Wood Moorma…
The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer FoundationTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation · The Marshall Steves Foundation · Impetus Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Robert Tucker Hayes Foundation · The Phoenix Charitable Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation

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 Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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