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New Braunfels Area Community Foundation

The NEW BRAUNFELS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION develops and encourages a culture of philanthropy by accepting gifts, administering funds, investing assets, and making grants to charitable organizations on behalf of donors for the greater benefit of the area.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$578k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$1.2MEnvironment$831kHuman Services$733kHousing & Shelter$535kHealth$486kEducation$424kReligion$407kRecreation & Sports$248kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,308,945 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,786,312 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $477,367 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $486k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $184k
  • $250k+1 grant · $578k
$11,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW BRAUNFELS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE$577,691
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS$120,062
NEW BRAUNFELS NOON LION CLUB$64,000
HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS INC$46,371
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINITRIES$37,700
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$34,673
HEADWATERS AT THE COMAL$31,650
HOPE HOSPICE$28,200
NB HOUSING PARTNERS$22,677
COMAL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$21,000
COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION$20,747
HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY$20,000
GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$20,000
IN GOD'S HEART MINISTRY$18,000
CASA OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC$14,099
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 (FY20–24, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SJRC TEXAS: $11k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 16%HEART FOR LEBANON: $13k → 12%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN (SJRC): $9k → 7%COMMUNITY OF AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONALS: $15k → 16%SOS FOOD BANK: $11k → 7%SOS FOOD BANK: $8k → 7%CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES: $34k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $28k → 10%CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 10%CHOSEN CARE INC: $22k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $21k → 10%CHOSEN CARE INC: $20k → 10%OPERATION TRIAGE: $20k → 10%CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $11k → 10%ROCK HAUS FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES: $11k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 10%COMAL IDD: $8k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $6k → 10%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

WA
MN
NY
NJ
CO
NC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 51 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
46

Total granted

$5.8M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $364k · revenue +59%
  • NB
    NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $358k · revenue +29%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $306k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • NB
    NEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES
    one grant, 2021 · $583k
  • BT
    BUSH TENNIS CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $73k · revenue -53%
  • HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +20%

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
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
2
New Braunfels Historic Railroad & Modelers Society Inc

The organizations mission is to preserve railroad artifacts and memorabia in a museum setting. in addition the organization seeks to educate the public about the historic significance of the rail system in new braunfels, tx.

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3
Border Missions

We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.

Religion
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights
5
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

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6
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
7
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
8
The Retreat Home for Children

Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.

Crime & Legal
9
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
10
Mission Able

Mobilize volunteers or skilled professionals to meet needs that primarily serve the san marcos, texas area.

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic

Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%4%<5yr16%12%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr10%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%20%<5yr16%9%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr10%3%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
16%
6,301/38,964

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

78 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. 78 of the 107 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
52/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,555,524 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIES — $582,849 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS UTILITIESHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY — $305,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTYNB HOUSING PARTNERS — $157,074 · Other+71 more — $1,853,600 · Other+71 moreNew Braunfels Youth Collaborative — $780,191 · Youth DevelopmentNew Braunfels You…YOUNG LIFE — $364,150 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE+2 more — $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $358,200 · HealthRIVER CITY ADVOCACY — $26,000 · HealthFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $16,900 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · HealthCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $94,300 · Human ServicesHOPE HOSPICE — $45,732 · Human ServicesCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION — $44,386 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS — $42,350 · Human ServicesCHOSEN CARE INC — $41,850 · Human ServicesOperation Triage — $20,000 · Human ServicesSJRC TEXAS INC — $19,100 · Human ServicesCOMAL IDD — $19,100 · Human ServicesSOS INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $15,250 · Human ServicesCommunity of Automotive Professiona — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $23,000 · Human ServicesCRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC — $289,650 · Recreation & SportsHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsBULVERDE SENIOR CENTER — $16,920 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $8,500 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $269,690 · Community ImprovementGREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ECONOMIC DEVELOPME — $40,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,500 · Community ImprovementIn Gods Heart Ministry — $191,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International — $25,000 · InternationalCOME LETS DANCE — $9,000 · International
Other$4,454,547Youth Development$1,160,341Health$421,100Human Services$398,568Recreation & Sports$365,070Community Improvement$320,190International$225,000

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 budgetNew Braunfels Youth Collaborative — $780,191 over 2y, 57% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $364,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $358,200 over 5y, 15% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY — $305,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetCRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC — $289,650 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $269,690 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetIn Gods Heart Ministry — $191,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetNB HOUSING PARTNERS — $157,074 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $138,850 over 2y, 70% of budgetCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $94,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBUSH TENNIS CENTER — $72,809 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHEADWATERS AT THE COMAL — $60,650 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $56,867 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER — $55,450 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHeritage Society of New Braunfels Inc — $55,371 over 2y, 20% of budgetSAINTS PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST — $52,732 over 4y, 21% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE — $45,732 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION — $44,386 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS — $42,350 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCHOSEN CARE INC — $41,850 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ECONOMIC DEVELOPME — $40,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS — $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC — $34,673 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES — $34,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc — $34,422 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCANINE CLASSMATES — $32,300 over 3y, 11% of budgetSOPHIENBURG MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $28,873 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRIVER CITY ADVOCACY — $26,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTexas A&M University 12th Man Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE NEW BRAUNFELS AREA INC — $24,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMID-TEXAS SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $22,600 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCASA of Central Texas Inc — $21,099 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Triage — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE ARTS THEATRE INCORPORATED — $19,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN — $19,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC — $19,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMAL IDD — $19,100 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSOS INC — $18,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $17,167 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $17,091 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBULVERDE SENIOR CENTER — $16,920 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $16,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDISCIPLE DAILY INC — $16,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $15,250 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

McKenna FoundationUnited Way of Comal C…San Antonio Area Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…The Gvtc Foundation I…Ingram Family Foundat…Heidemann-Wuest Found…Veramendi Charitable …St Luke's Lutheran He…John L Santikos Chari…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Faye L & William L Co…
McKenna FoundationTX59.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McKenna Foundation · United Way of Comal County · San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Gvtc Foundation Inc · Ingram Family Foundation · Heidemann-Wuest Foundation · Veramendi Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable 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 New Braunfels Area Community 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 107 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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