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Music Foundation of San Antonio Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k
Granted FY2024still arriving
216
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$742k
02FY2024 · 216 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$840
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$3,235
Individual grant recipient$2,800
Individual grant recipient$2,309
Individual grant recipient$2,252
Individual grant recipient$2,016
Individual grant recipient$1,835
Individual grant recipient$1,760
Individual grant recipient$1,730
Alondra$1,699
Individual grant recipient$1,695
Individual grant recipient$1,655
Rey David De la Santos$1,655
Individual grant recipient$1,650
Individual grant recipient$1,625
Individual grant recipient$1,625
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%John Hotea: $11k → 7%Kate Mcherron: $3k → 16%John Hotea: $8k → 7%Abiud Aerialli Rodriguez: $2k → 16%Victoria Hotea: $2k → 7%Sophia Hotea: $2k → 7%Rachel Hotea: $2k → 7%Rachel Hotea: $2k → 7%Sophia Hotea: $2k → 7%Sara Hotea: $2k → 7%Alesha Hotea: $2k → 7%Rachel Hotea: $2k → 7%Alesha Hotea: $2k → 7%Sara Hotea: $2k → 7%Celeste Rodriguez: $2k → 16%Alesha Hotea: $2k → 7%Musical Bridges Around The World: $75k → 16%Musical Bridges Around The World: $50k → 16%Musical Bridges Around The World: $50k → 16%Musical Bridges Around The World: $30k → 16%Musical Bridges Around The World: $2k → 16%Tatiana Guerro: $3k → 16%Tatiana Guerro: $2k → 16%Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony: $50k → 16%Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony: $50k → 16%Alejandro Rivera: $2k → 16%Northside Music Schoole Inc: $44k → 16%Greg Marissa Siu: $2k → 16%Maria Molina: $2k → 16%David Elias: $11k → 16%David Elias: $2k → 16%Daniel Villalobos: $2k → 16%Gabriel Ybarbo: $2k → 16%Rey David De la Santos: $2k → 16%Yolanda Madrid: $2k → 16%Gloria Lewis: $3k → 16%Georgia Lu: $3k → 16%Felipe Sanchez: $2k → 16%Leonardo Vasquez: $2k → 16%Judah Oketada: $2k → 16%Judah Oketade: $2k → 16%Kadosh Bracho: $2k → 16%Leah Galarza: $2k → 16%Rebecca della Fuente: $5k → 16%Abigail Caballero: $2k → 16%Liz Mangelson: $3k → 16%Anthony Martinez: $2k → 16%Alondra: $2k → 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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$572k · 120 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

120 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 112 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
47

Total granted

$572k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+40%

Still filing today

1%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

  • MB
    Musical Bridges Around the World Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $207k · revenue +74%
  • MO
    Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k

Funded once

  • NM
    Northside Music School Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $44k · revenue +40% · 33% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 279 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony: $100,000 · OtherMusicians of the San Antonio SymphonyIndividual grant recipient: $18,308 · Other+196 more: $351,332 · Other+196 moreMusical Bridges Around the World Inc: $207,000 · Arts & CultureMusical Bridges Around the World IncNorthside Music School Inc: $44,100 · Arts & CultureNorthside Music School Inc
Other$469,640Arts & Culture$251,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc: $207,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetNorthside Music School Inc: $44,100 over 1y, 33% 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 Musical Bridges Around the World Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northside Music School Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Music Foundation of San Antonio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Music Foundation of San Antonio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 Music Foundation of San Antonio Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Music Foundation of San Antonio Inc 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 279 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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