· Private foundation
Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $356k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $249,500 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE | $100,000 |
| MAGIK THEATRE | $75,000 |
| THE MAJESTIC EMPIRE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| OPERA SAN ANTONIO | $75,000 |
| MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD | $75,000 |
| AGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS | $65,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO | $60,000 |
| CACTUS PEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL | $55,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| CARVER DEVELOPMENT BOARD | $30,000 |
| KLRN - PUBLIC TELEVISION | $28,000 |
| ARTPACE SAN ANTONIO | $28,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
- TOTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN6× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +63%
- MBMusical Bridges Around the World Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +74%
- CPCactus Pear Music Festival7× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SASAN ANTONIO OPERAone grant, 2021 · $75k
- LCLAS CASES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TPTHE PLAYHOUSE SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2017 · $27k
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.
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
Professional Choir
Alamo City Performing Arts Association is dedicated to inclusive education in the art of dance, theater and music; in order to help instill and perpetuate a genuine appreciation of the performing arts in our community through educational…
The mission of performing arts san antonio is to develop a creative community focused on producing high quality live productions, presenting new works, and preparing both actors and musical theatre performs ages 3 years to adult with the…
Founded in 1993, American Festival for the Arts (AFA) provides high quality community-based music education programs and performance opportunities designed primarily for youth and, through its concert series and outreach, seeks to broaden…
Preserve, advance and cultivate classical music by supporting and promoting live performances, providing financial assistance and service, and supporting and creating educational efforts/programs of nonprofit classical music organizations…
The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is Carver Development Board. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 76 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 SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Musical Bridges Around the World Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Cactus Pear Music Festival ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds AGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Institute CMI ↗
- Who funds ARTS SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Chamber Music Society ↗
- Who funds SOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALAMO CITY OPERA ↗
- Who funds ARTPACE INC (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds Olmos Ensemble ↗
- Who funds CARVER DEVELOPMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MASTERSINGERS ↗
- Who funds CONSPIRARE 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Muriel F Siebert Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Williamson 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 Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts 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.
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