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McGuire Family Foundation at a glance

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McGuire Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$561kPhilanthropy$460kReligion$251kEducation$232kInternational$212kCommunity Improvement$146kEnvironment$94kHealth$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$292k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS WATER MISSION-HONDURAS$8,000
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$7,000
SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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, $290k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $51k → 9%FII NATIONAL: $51k → 10%HAITI DESIGN COLLECTIVE: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%STARFISH PROJECT: $3k → 13%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $4k → 11%FII NATIONAL: $51k → 10%HAITI DESIGN COLLECTIVE: $3k → 8%STARFISH PROJECT: $3k → 13%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%WOMEN IN ACTION: $1k → 10%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%SIDE BY SIDE KIDS: $1k → 10%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%SIDE BY SIDE KIDS: $1k → 10%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $5k → 16%SIDE BY SIDE KIDS: $1k → 10%SIDE BY SIDE KIDS: $1k → 10%SIDE BY SIDE KIDS: $1k → 10%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER-SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER-SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER-SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%GOOD SAMARATIN CENTER--SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%GOOD SAMARATIN CENTER--SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%GOOD SAMARATIN CENTER--SAN ANTONIO: $2k → 16%GOOD SAMARATIN CENTER--SAN ANTONIO: $2k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $10k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $3k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $3k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $3k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $3k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $3k → 16%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
NV
WY
IN
PA
CA
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.
$2.2M · 103 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

103 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
38

Total granted

$2.2M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+45%

Still filing today

41%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • HE
    H E BUTT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $200k · revenue +317%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $91k · revenue +417%
  • TW
    Texas Water Mission Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • FI
    FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INT
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
  • SL
    ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
2
Connectability

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

Human Services
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
8
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
9
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

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…

Environment
10
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
11
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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12
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fii - National; the most unlike its peers is H E Butt Foundation. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 145 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
39/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

H E BUTT FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherH E BUTT FOUNDATIONHEADWATER INCARNATE WORD: $122,500 · OtherHEADWATER INCARNATE WORDST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH--SAN ANTONIO: $96,600 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH--SAN ANTONIOIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherWG CONWAY-UTSA ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP: $75,000 · OtherPAY IT FORWARD MINISTRIES: $72,500 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME ASSN OF CENTRAL TX: $62,500 · Other+104 more: $957,320 · Other+104 moreFII - NATIONAL: $153,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S…GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $29,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN…Guide Dogs of Texas Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…HEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $11,500 · Human Services+5 more: $19,000 · Human Services+5 moreTexas Water Mission Inc: $65,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $55,500 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $6,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION: $91,000 · Community ImprovementBE THE BRIDGE: $9,000 · Community ImprovementSchreiner University: $27,000 · EducationKUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN: $14,000 · EducationALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationRUBY'S RAINBOW: $10,000 · EducationOBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $6,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,400 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationEkisa Ministries International Inc: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $10,000 · EnvironmentSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,500 · EnvironmentGallatin River Task Force: $2,450 · EnvironmentRUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $1,750 · EnvironmentMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Environment
Other$1,661,420Human Services$292,500International$128,500Community Improvement$100,000Education$73,400Youth Development$58,000Environment$25,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetH E BUTT FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $153,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION: $91,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetTexas Water Mission Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $55,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEkisa Ministries International Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSchreiner University: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $25,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN: $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLINE MINISTRIES: $11,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUBY'S RAINBOW: $10,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBE THE BRIDGE: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Report: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKERRVILLE PERPETUAL CARE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI DESIGN COLLECTIVE: $5,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetStarfish Project Incorporated: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $2,450 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Miracle League of San Antonio Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GATHERING: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINDROP FOUNDATION INC: $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.

  • Who funds H E BUTT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Texas Water Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Ekisa Ministries International Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds Schreiner University ↗
  • Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds KUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN ↗

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Greater Houston Commu…Harvey E Najim Charit…Norman Family Foundat…Perry & Ruby Stevens …Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…The Independent Chari…Dallas Jewish Communi…Joan and Herb Kellehe…Charitable Foundation…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX30.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Norman Family Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to McGuire Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McGuire 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 145 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home