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Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts at a glance

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Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$6.5MPhilanthropy$1.8MEnvironment$155kEducation$66kCrime & Legal$50kReligion$20kHealth$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
$23,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$249,500
CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTITUTE$100,000
SAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE$100,000
SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL$100,000
OPERA SAN ANTONIO$75,000
MUSICAL BRIDGES AROUND THE WORLD$75,000
MAGIK THEATRE$75,000
THE MAJESTIC EMPIRE FOUNDATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 90%.

Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Artslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 47 repeat orgs$734k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
19

Total granted

$6.1M
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+132%

Still filing today

57%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TO
    THE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN
    6× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +63%
  • MB
    Musical Bridges Around the World Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $435k · revenue +74%
  • CP
    Cactus Pear Music Festival
    7× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO OPERA
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • LC
    LAS CASES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TP
    THE PLAYHOUSE SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
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
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
2
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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3
American Baroque Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Chamber Choir of San Antonio

Professional Choir

Arts & Culture
5
Alamo City Performing Arts Association

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Performing Arts San Antonio Tinder

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…

Arts & Culture
7
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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8
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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9
American Festival for the Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
11
San Antonio Symphony League

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Symphony Society of San Antonio

The san antonio symphony's mission is to delight, engage, and inspire the entire community through excellent performance, education, and outreach

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts San Antonio; 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.
05the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
22/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN: $525,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN ANMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $524,667 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUMMAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE: $483,000 · Arts & CultureMAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK…Musical Bridges Around the World Inc: $435,000 · Arts & CultureMusical Bridges Around the World IncTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $375,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIOCactus Pear Music Festival: $290,000 · Arts & CultureCactus Pear Music FestivalSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $260,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ARTWitte Museum: $180,000 · Arts & CultureAGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $170,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $766,260 · Arts & Culture+15 moreSAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL: $250,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVALPUBLIC THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO: $207,395 · OtherPUBLIC THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIOKLRN - PUBLIC TELEVISION: $205,556 · OtherKLRN - PUBLIC TELEVISIONIndividual grant recipient: $162,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO: $130,935 · OtherYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONI…Classical Music Institute CMI: $100,000 · OtherARTS SAN ANTONIO: $100,000 · OtherGEMINI INK: $97,500 · OtherCARVER CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $96,000 · OtherSan Antonio Chamber Music Society: $90,750 · OtherALAMO CITY OPERA: $80,000 · Other+33 more: $817,027 · Other+33 moreSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $1,830,349 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDAT…BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART: $160,000 · EducationUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $5,600 · EducationSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $130,000 · EnvironmentSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentCARVER DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $58,000 · Community ImprovementBARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$4,008,927Other$2,337,663Philanthropy$1,830,349Education$225,600Environment$155,000Community Improvement$58,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $1,830,349 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE OPERA SAN ANTONIO DBA OPERA SAN AN: $525,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $524,667 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE: $483,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc: $435,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $375,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCactus Pear Music Festival: $290,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $260,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWitte Museum: $180,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetAGARITA CHAMBER PLAYERS: $170,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetBEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART: $160,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO: $130,935 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetBALLET SAN ANTONIO: $130,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAN PEDRO PLAYHOUSE: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetClassical Music Institute CMI: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetARTS SAN ANTONIO: $100,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSan Antonio Chamber Music Society: $90,750 over 6y, 27% of budgetSOLI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE: $90,610 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetSAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS: $80,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetALAMO CITY OPERA: $80,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetARTPACE INC (AUDIT): $64,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOlmos Ensemble: $58,600 over 8y, 10% of budgetCARVER DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $58,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MASTERSINGERS: $48,700 over 5y, 20% of budgetCONSPIRARE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation for Cultural Arts in San Antonio dba Las Casas Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetClassic Theatre of San Antonio: $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BROADWAY THEATRE: $27,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDRENS CHORUS OF SAN ANTONIO: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFIESTA CORNYATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 BALLET SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Marcia & Otto Koehler…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Muriel F Siebert Foun…The Brown Foundation …Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Jack and Doris Smothe…Pryor Myra Stafford C…John L Santikos Chari…The Williamson Founda…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX50.4× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts?

    Find your warmest path to Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts 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.

    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 76 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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