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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,308,945, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,786,312 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $477,367 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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:

Its 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. Its 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
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

WA
MN
NY
NJ
CO
NC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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 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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6
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
7
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
8
Mission Able

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

Housing & Shelter
9
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
10
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
11
Ubi Caritas a Healing Ministry

To provide medical and dental care and health education to low-income and uninsured residents of southeast texas.

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12
Central Texas Spca

Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is North American Mycological Assn. 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

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
53/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesCOMAL IDD: $19,100 · Human ServicesSJRC TEXAS INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSOUTH TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ECONOMIC DEVELOPME: $40,000 over 2y, 8.8% 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 budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $25,000 over 2y, 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 budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN: $19,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCIRCLE ARTS THEATRE INCORPORATED: $19,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCOMAL IDD: $19,100 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC: $19,100 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

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

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 New Braunfels Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Braunfels Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 107 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 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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