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Nustar Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
134
Itemized grants FY2024
259
Organizations funded FY2023
66%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$2.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$600,000
Organizations funded a year
259 to 266
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 66% of the organizations Nustar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving114$2.8M19%
FY2023259$3.6M66%
FY2021266$2.2Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.7MHealth$1.3MAnimals$1.2MHuman Services$385kEducation$359kYouth Development$358kRecreation & Sports$217kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 262 grantees
All grantees of Nustar Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Haven for Hope of Bexar County$2,129,68935%
Friends of Cabrillo Aquarium$1,152,50020%
University Health Foundation$1,010,000317%
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County$169,68030%
Valero Energy Foundation$128,49331%
Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc$111,05831%
Meals on Wheels San Antonio$106,40030%
Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation$61,39021%
Witte Museum$52,84830%
San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$51,58212%
Old Spanish Missions Inc$50,20036%
High Plains Food Bank$50,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio$50,00020%
San Antonio Sports Foundation$43,10020%
San Antonio Parks Foundation$42,50020%
Morgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation$35,80031%
United Negro College Fund Inc$28,80010%
National Western Art Foundation Briscoe Western Art Museum$28,00030%
Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc$26,75020%
American Heart Association Inc$25,70030%
Liftfund Inc$25,00010%
The Valor Club$25,0001n/a
Imua Family Services$25,00011%
Centro Partnership San Antonio$25,00011%
Philanthropitch$25,00013%
Pay It Forward - Clean and Sober Living Inc$24,76013%
San Antonio Bowl Association$23,12030%
Junior Achievement of South Texas Inc$20,92030%
Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio$20,00030%
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC$16,70011%
Jim Wells County Fair Association$16,40031%
Curington Elementary School PTO Inc$15,300249%
Women's Shelter of South Texas$14,66520%
Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas$14,00020%
San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc$12,49030%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$12,00030%
Cancare Inc$11,85011%
Casa of Grayson County Inc$11,50031%
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants$11,50011%
The Arc of San Antonio Inc$11,33030%
Linn San Manuel Community Improvement Corp$11,25033%
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation$11,00021%
United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc$10,92520%
The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc$10,50030%
San Antonio Children's Museum$10,49230%
The Links Foundation Incorporated$10,00020%
First Step of Wichita Falls Inc$10,00011%
KIPP Texas Inc$10,00010%
Boysville Inc$10,00020%
Asian Resource Center of San Antoni$10,00012%
Anuja Sa Inc$9,70024%
Greater San Antonio After-School All-Stars$9,44020%
Girls Incorporated of San Antonio$9,41020%
Boys and Girls Club of Harlingen$8,75030%
Gallantfew Inc$8,43521%
Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation$8,25010%
Rotary Club of Fair Oaks Ranch Foundation$7,950216%
The Wichita Children's Home$7,74030%
Clarity Child Guidance Center$7,65020%
Gospel Vision Music Ministries$7,5001n/a
Nutter Family Foundation$7,50022%
Reagan High School Choir Booster Club$7,5001n/a
National Center For Behavioral Health Solutions$7,00021%
Thru Project$6,75020%
United Way of Pierce County$6,50020%
Big 5 Horse Show Assn$6,50024%
Live Oak County Fair Association$6,40020%
Hancock County Performing Arts Center$6,06610%
Down Syndrome Association of South Texas$6,00021%
Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc$5,90020%
The Arc of Platte County$5,50029%
The Children's Shelter$5,30020%
Sa Tx Inner City Development Inc$5,00012%
Essence Prep Inc$5,00010%
Residential Energy Assistance Partnership Inc REAP$5,00010%
Honeybee Society$5,00013%
San Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership$5,00010%
St Anthony Catholic School$5,00010%
Child Advocates San Antonio$5,00010%
San Antonio Zoological Society$5,00010%
Ransomed Life Inc$5,00020%
Kinetic Kids Inc$4,85020%
Corpus Christi Literacy Council$4,83022%
Overcomers Daughters of the King of Kings$4,66814%
United Way of the Plains Inc$4,60020%
Good Samaritan Center of San Antonio$4,60010%
Pace Center for Girlsinc$4,58010%
Corpus Christi Metro Ministriesinc$4,50020%
Coastal Bend Blood Center$4,50020%
Independent Living Resource Center Inc$4,45020%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$4,37510%
Heartspring Inc$4,23530%
Respite Care of San Antonio Inc$4,20010%
Special Kids-Special Families Inc$4,08010%
United Methodist Open Door$4,00020%
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas$4,00020%
Hale County Stock Show Inc$3,55011%
Wichita Animal Action League$3,50030%
Emergency Food Bank$3,40010%
Carver Development Board$3,25011%
The Transplant Association of Texas$3,00011%
El Dorado Bpoe Foundation$3,0002n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc$3,00020%
San Antonio Museum of Art$3,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,00010%
Howard County Volunteer Fire Department$3,00010%
Wichita Falls Streams & Valleys Inc$3,00022%
United Way of San Joaquin County$3,00020%
Fillmore Central Beef Boosters Inc$2,8002n/a
Franklin County Area United Way Inc$2,80020%
Texas Military Institute$2,8002n/a
Rainbow Rgv Community Partners$2,7901n/a
Successful Connections Inc$2,74030%
Friends of Cibolo Wilderness$2,72520%
San Antonio Development Fore Youth Inc$2,60010%
Elk Grove Food Bank$2,50010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$2,50010%
Thrivewell Cancer Foundation$2,50010%
The Hope and Healing Place Inc$2,50011%
South Texas Institute for the Arts$2,50010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,50010%
A Noble Journey Inc$2,50013%
Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc$2,50021%
Alpha Home Inc$2,50010%
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor$2,50010%
K9s for Warriors Inc$2,50010%
House of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas$2,50010%
Quay County Fair Board$2,50011%
Wellspace Health$2,50020%
Coastal Bend Food Bank$2,45020%
John Swett Education Foundation$2,4201n/a
Kendall County Women's Shelter$2,30010%
Special Reach Inc$2,30011%
Duke It Out Boxing Club Inc$2,3002n/a
Christian Assistance Ministry$2,26010%
Kendall County Wild Game Dinner$2,25010%
San Antonio-Mexican Friendship Council Inc$2,23016%
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$2,22520%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$2,20410%
Del Mar College Foundation Inc$2,15030%
Turn Center$2,08010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,00030%
Saloc$2,00010%
Sfr Community Fund Inc$2,00020%
Women's Empowerment$2,00020%
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Texas Elks Children's Services Inc$2,00010%
Children's Tumor Foundation$2,00020%
Gray County Buyers Club$2,000210%
Permian Pipeliners Education Foundation$2,00010%
Am Project$2,00012%
Storybridge Inc$2,00010%
King William Association$2,00010%
Husky Halfway House Foundation$2,00020%
Mayors Youth Commission of Linden Inc$2,0001n/a
St James 4-H Foundation$2,00013%
Hermann Area Crusade Against Cancer Inc$1,82022%
San Antonio a & M Club Foundation$1,80020%
Opportunity Center Foundation Inc$1,60010%
Troop C Grant A Wish$1,600111%
Mary Graham Childrens Foundation$1,55011%
Refuge Services Inc$1,55020%
New Phoebe House$1,50010%
Morningside Ministries$1,50010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$1,50010%
Hermann Athletic Booster Club$1,50011%
Spawglass Foundation$1,500137%
The Montessori School of San Antonio$1,50010%
United Way of Big Spring & Howard$1,5001n/a
San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame$1,50012%
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc$1,50010%
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc$1,50010%
Pearls Foundation$1,50012%
The Junior League of Amarillo$1,50011%
San Antonio Ivy Foundation Inc$1,50014%
Casa Crude Association San Antonio$1,4451n/a
Great Hearts America-Texas$1,30030%
Christian Performance Theatre Inc$1,30020%
Friends of the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History$1,25010%
Wings Educational Foundation$1,23030%
McPherson Baseball Association Inc.$1,1402n/a
Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange$1,05010%
Whitby Road Alliance Inc Dba Providence Place$1,00010%
Valley Haven Inc$1,00010%
Fast Food Farm Inc$1,0002n/a
Henderson Settlement Inc$1,00010%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Wichita Kansas (2311)$1,00010%
The Loft Church$1,0001n/a
Foster Angels of South Texas Foundation$1,00010%
United Way and Volunteer Services of Greater Yankt$1,00010%
Meals on Wheels of Alameda County$1,00010%
Sunray Youth Basketball League$1,0001n/a
Fop Shop With a Cop$1,00021%
Paxtons Blessing Box Inc$1,0001n/a
Healy-Murphy Center$1,00010%
Contemporary Art for San Antonio$1,00010%
Nowata County Spring Livestock Show Inc$1,0001n/a
Abode Contemplative Care$1,00010%
Peewee's Pet Adoption World & Sanctuary Inc$1,00010%
Education Service Center Region I of Texas$1,0002n/a
Amarillo Tri-State Exposition$1,00020%
Forest Lake Athletic Association$1,00010%
Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Kansas$1,00010%
AbilityPoint Inc$1,00010%
Texas Sheriffs' Regional Alliance$1,00011%
University of Oregon Foundation$1,00010%
Texas Cultural Trust Council$1,00010%
Fishing Has No Boundaries Inc$1,00010%
Family Promise of Greater Wichita$96010%
Saltwater-Fisheries Enhancement Association$900119%
Quivira Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$87210%
Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas$85010%
Community Literacy Foundation$8002n/a
Midstream America Scholarship Fund$70021%
IEC TP Education Foundation$6901n/a
Center for Behavioral and Academic Research Inc$68010%
Yankton Basketball Inc$60021%
Friends of Needville Students$6002n/a
National Fire Safety Council Inc$60010%
Mission of Mercy Inc$60010%
Newton Rotary Foundation Inc$5541n/a
Team Gleason Foundation$54010%
McPherson County Food Bank Inc$53010%
Bruning-Davenport FFA Alumni$5041n/a
Rejoice Christian School Inc$5001n/a
Mtk Foundation$50011%
Education Foundation of Canyon ISD$50010%
Texas Sealife Center$50010%
911 Park Place$50010%
Park City Bmx Inc$50011%
SPURS Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$50010%
Butler Community College Foundation$50010%
Tess Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund$5001n/a
Urban -15 Group$50010%
Viola's Huge Heart Foundation$50011%
El Dorado Community Partners Inc$5001n/a
Amarillo Thunder Baseball Club$50010%
George West Education Foundation Inc$50011%
Youth Core Ministries Inc$50010%
Wichita Area Homeschool Athletic Assn$50010%
Contra Costa College Foundation$50010%
Coastal Bend Wildlife Habitat Coastal Bend Wildlife Photo Contest$50010%
Hermann Area Youth Deer Hunt Assn$3501n/a
Hope Ranch for Women Inc$33410%
Bulldog Education Foundation$30910%
Sunray Circle of Friends$3001n/a
Jesani Smith Foundation$30010%
Buffalo Valley Youth Association$30010%
Agora Ministries Inc$30010%
San Antonio Christian School$30010%
Yankton Food for Thought$30010%
Jan Manolis Family Safe Center$25010%
Baylor University$25010%
Alm Charities Inc$25010%
Hutchinson Meals-On-Wheels Inc$20010%
Dove Creek Equine Rescue & Sanctuary$20010%
Summit County Rescue Group Inc$20010%
Partners in Education Foundation$14510%
Colorado City Volunteer Fire Dept$10010%
1c a Mission Church of the Lcms$1001n/a
San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists Sc$10010%
Capital Area United Way$9010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 197 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Nustar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $2,129,689 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFriends of Cabrillo Aquarium: $1,152,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity Health Foundation: $1,010,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetUnited Way of San Antonio and Bexar County: $169,680 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetValero Energy Foundation: $128,493 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of Southwest Texas Inc: $111,058 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMeals on Wheels San Antonio: $106,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $61,390 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWitte Museum: $52,848 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $51,582 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOld Spanish Missions Inc: $50,200 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetHigh Plains Food Bank: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Sports Foundation: $43,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSan Antonio Parks Foundation: $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation: $35,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $28,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Western Art Foundation Briscoe Western Art Museum: $28,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAlamo Colleges Foundation Inc: $26,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiftfund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImua Family Services: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCentro Partnership San Antonio: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPhilanthropitch: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPay It Forward - Clean and Sober Living Inc: $24,760 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSan Antonio Bowl Association: $23,120 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of South Texas Inc: $20,920 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of San Antonio: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $16,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJim Wells County Fair Association: $16,400 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCurington Elementary School PTO Inc: $15,300 over 2y, 49% of budgetWomen's Shelter of South Texas: $14,665 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildrens Bereavement Center of South Texas: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc: $12,490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCancare Inc: $11,850 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCasa of Grayson County Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVoluntary Protection Programs Participants: $11,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Arc of San Antonio Inc: $11,330 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLinn San Manuel Community Improvement Corp: $11,250 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of the Coastal Bend Inc: $10,925 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Children's Museum: $10,492 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Links Foundation Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Step of Wichita Falls Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoysville Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX89.1× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County

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.

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How do I get to Nustar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nustar 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.

About Nustar Foundation

How much does Nustar Foundation give?
Nustar Foundation reported 134 itemized grants totaling $2,823,145, out of $2,915,602 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 259 and 266 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Nustar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (15%), Philanthropy (12%), Health (9%).
Who are Nustar Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Haven for Hope of Bexar County ($2.1M), Friends of Cabrillo Aquarium ($1.2M), University Health Foundation ($1.0M).
Does Nustar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nustar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nustar Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation, Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation.
Where is Nustar Foundation based?
Nustar Foundation is based in TX.

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 462 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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