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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 you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of MCGUIRE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$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

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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 SAMARATIN CENTER--SAN ANTONIO: $5k → 16%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: $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

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

NH
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
NV
WY
IN
PA
CA
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
GA
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 103 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you 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

+46%
+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

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

  • 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
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S ESISCOPAL CHURCH - SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fii - National and 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.

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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterSchool District FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Banks and PantriesLgbtq+ Community SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Community Foundations
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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr10%14%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,738

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

53 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 ANTONIOWG CONWAY-UTSA ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $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…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…Guide Dogs of Texas Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of …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 · EnvironmentMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION — $1,750 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $1,750 · Environment
Other$1,661,420Human Services$292,500International$128,500Community Improvement$100,000Education$73,400Youth Development$58,000Environment$25,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO — $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSchreiner University — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc — $25,000 over 7y, 1.5% 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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUBY'S RAINBOW — $10,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBE THE BRIDGE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Report — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE KIDS INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% 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 budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI DESIGN COLLECTIVE — $5,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGLOBAL CHILD ADVOCATES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GATHERING — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Miracle League of San Antonio Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRUBY HABITAT FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 3y, 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 budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO
  • Who funds Schreiner University
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds KUPENDA FOR THE CHILDREN

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 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

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 McGuire 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals67% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc10% 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, FY2025

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.

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 145 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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