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Melovee White Trust
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k8 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $696k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC | $200,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $190,000 |
| ALAMO HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $100,000 |
| HFCC INC (HOUSING FIRST COMMUNITY COALITION) | $56,400 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE INC | $50,000 |
| MAKE WATER 4 AFRICA | $50,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO MENNONITE CHURCH | $45,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| CHOSEN CARE INC | $40,000 |
| SIGHT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| HARVEST REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| MORGAN'S WONDERLAND INCLUSION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SMITH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT & EMERGENCY CO | $10,000 |
| ENOCH SAYS | $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 (FY17–21, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k 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
- ECECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALT2× · 2017–2019 · $375k · revenue +30%
- CCHILDSAFE2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +216%
- RMREACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE2× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- RCREBECCA CREEK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $135k
- TSTHE SPONSEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $125k
- SASAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +52%
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.
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
To improve the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and those who care for them.
Mobilize volunteers or skilled professionals to meet needs that primarily serve the san marcos, texas area.
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.
To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.
To provide services which focus on nourishing lives, enabling independence and caring for the most frail and isolated residents in the greater san antonio region.
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.
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 reduce death/disability related to trauma, disaster and acute illness through implementation of a well-planned and coordinated regional emergency response system.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is More Water 4 Africa. 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 ECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALT ↗
- Who funds CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINSTON SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE ↗
- Who funds REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARFA THEATRE dba Marfa Live Arts ↗
- Who funds ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SA Life Academy ↗
- Who funds MORE WATER 4 AFRICA ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMITH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT AND EMERGENCY CORPS ↗
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 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nathalie & Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust · Mays Family Foundation · Louis H and Mary Patricia Stumberg Foundation
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 Melovee White Trust 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.
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.
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