· Private foundation
Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $63,500 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY | $25,500 |
| SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| TEXAS BIOMED RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $13,600 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART | $4,000 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM | $3,250 |
| SAINT MARY'S HALL | $2,500 |
| BALLET SAN ANTONIO | $2,500 |
| UT HEALTH BIGGS INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| BRISCO WESTERN ART MUSEUM | $590 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SMSt Mary's University6× · 2020–2025 · $393k · revenue +26%
- SASAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $169k · revenue +144%
- SASAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- OPOLMOS PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $4k
- MEMAJESTIC EMPIRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
- SASAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +308%
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.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…
SAA empowers its members to understand humanity's past through ethically-based scientific and humanistic investigation, to promote preservation of archaeological resources and cultural heritage through support of legislation and education,…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
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.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pleasanton Young Farmers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 57 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 St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds HEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BALLET SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Association of Latino Leaders Inc ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds THE ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds BEETHOVEN MAENNERCHOR INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds USA PENTATHLON INC ↗
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: Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Mays Family Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Jesse H and Susan R Oppenheimer Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Ld Ormsby Charitable Foundation Inc · Horse Creek Trust · Ksl Family Foundation · Daniel J Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation · The Marshall Steves 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 Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable 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.
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.