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Mays Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
181
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$8.4MHealth$3.3MAnimals$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MHuman Services$826kArts & Culture$746kFood & Nutrition$510kYouth Development$395kOther$0
02FY2024 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k106 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k44 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+13 grants · $13M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$313M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$3,500,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$2,300,000
UT HEALTH AT SAN ANTONIO$1,800,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$1,050,000
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$1,000,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$500,000
UT HEALTH AT SAN ANTONIO$500,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$500,000
YMCA OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO$375,000
HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY$300,000
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION (CEP)$300,000
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY$250,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK$250,000
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN$225,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$150,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WONDERS & WORRIES INC: $25k → 10%CAMP ARANZAZU: $15k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $100k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $10k → 16%ABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE FOR THE DYING: $25k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $15k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $10k → 16%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $15k → 16%GIRLS INC OF SAN ANTONIO: $25k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $50k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your field

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.

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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
2
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
3
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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4
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
5
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
6
Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans

Aama's mission is to inspire and empower latinos to pursue and achieve their potential and achieve success. aama's ultimate goal is that all latinos will be able to participate fully in the economic and civic success of our community. the…

Human Services
7
Sa Talent Inc Sa Works

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…

Education
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San Antonio Christian School

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…

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9
Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…

Education
10
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
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The Montessori School of San Antonio

The montessori school of san antonio (mssa) guides children to be passionate learners, independent thinkers, and engaged citizens. through the guiding principles of montessori curriculum and the school culture, children develop critical…

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12
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

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.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sa Youth and the most unlike its peers is The Mindfull Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development and Educa…Houston Community Foundatio…Community Development Organ…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr17%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr14%62%35–55yr17%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/107
the rest of the field
14%
2,146/15,017

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.

04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 144 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
30/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Texas A&M Foundation — $6,850,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationVanderbilt University — $1,005,000 · EducationVanderbilt University+12 more — $496,570 · Education+12 moreUT HEALTH AT SAN ANTONIO — $2,400,000 · OtherUT HEALTH AT SAN ANTONIOSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION (CEP) — $600,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION (CEP)YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO — $386,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREAT…SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN — $275,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $250,000 · OtherHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $300,000 · Other+78 more — $2,598,200 · Other+78 moreSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,050,000 · AnimalsGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Animals+2 more — $55,000 · AnimalsAlamo Trust Inc — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET SAN ANTONIO — $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $27,500 · Arts & CultureWitte Museum — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFoundation for Cultural Arts in San Antonio dba Las Casas Foundation — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $150,000 · HealthTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthPAY IT FORWARD - CLEAN AND SOBER LIVING INC — $37,500 · HealthTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · HealthTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 · HealthAUGUSTHEART — $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( — $20,000 · Health+7 more — $75,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $275,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $110,000 · Human ServicesRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSAFE — $50,000 · Human ServicesABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE — $25,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO — $25,000 · Human ServicesWonders & Worries Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesMAGDALENA MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesChristian Assistance Ministry — $25,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesHouse of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $12,500 · Human Services
Education$8,351,570Other$6,809,200Animals$1,155,000Arts & Culture$518,500Health$502,500Philanthropy$460,000Human Services$377,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $6,850,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $1,050,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVanderbilt University — $1,005,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO — $386,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $275,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO — $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC — $120,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $110,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAlamo Trust Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOUISE H BATZ PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI CARE SAN ANTONIO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBig Green — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOUND OFF — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDSAFE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $48,570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM — $48,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPAY IT FORWARD - CLEAN AND SOBER LIVING INC — $37,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT MARYS HALL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET SAN ANTONIO — $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $27,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSA YOUTH — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Harvey E Najim Charit…The Texas Cavaliers C…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Betty Stieren Kelso F…The Charity Ball Asso…Pryor Myra Stafford C…John L Santikos Chari…Marcia & Otto Koehler…St Luke's Lutheran He…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX115.4× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc

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 Mays Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mays Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mays Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home