· Private foundation
Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| ROY MAAS YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC | $20,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO | $15,000 |
| AVANCE INC - SAN ANTONIO | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN ANTONIO | $15,000 |
| KINETIC KIDS INC | $15,000 |
| MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SA YOUTH | $10,000 |
| TEXAS DIAPER BANK | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SAN ANTONIO | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALAMO AREA CNCL | $10,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL CENTER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MAGIK CHILDREN THEATRE INC | $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 (FY17–25, $598k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- SASAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +50%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK4× · 2018–2024 · $79k · revenue +40%
- WMWitte Museum4× · 2018–2024 · $78k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AMAMEDD MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $20k
- RYRainbow Youth Centerone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +197%
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.
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.
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…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
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.
To foster human and community development through community-based arts.
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.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
To educate qualified individuals of public benefits that they may be entitled to. we accomplish this by working with local city, state, and federal agencies for the purpose of outreach and verification work. recently we have focused mainly…
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.
To improve the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and those who care for them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sa Youth and the most unlike its peers is Ronald McDONALD House Charities of Greater North Texas Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 131 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 SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds ROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Respite Care of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds Kinetic Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds ALPHA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds Ascension DePaul Services ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds ABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds Project MEND ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR 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 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nathalie & Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust
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 Marcia & Otto Koehler 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.