· Private foundation
Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BALLET SAN ANTONIO | $2,500 |
| SAINT MARY'S HALL | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2020 · $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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger L and Laura D Zeller Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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