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Saint Susie Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Saint Susie Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$435k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.4MEducation$660kHuman Services$650kHealth$622kRecreation & Sports$255kYouth Development$232kFood & Nutrition$45kScience & Tech$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST$105,000
SAN ANTONIO MARRIAGE INTIATIVE$65,000
ECUMENICAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION COUNSELING HEALTH$50,000
SCHOOL CONNECT SA$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO$35,000
CHOSEN CARE INC$30,000
FAMILY TALK$25,000
SA HOPE CENTER$25,000
YOUNG LIFE SAN ANTONIO & SOUTH TEXAS$20,000
SNACK PAK FOR KIDS$15,000
HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHOSEN CARE INC: $30k → 10%REZILIENT KIDZ: $50k → 9%CHOSEN CARE INC: $15k → 10%REZILIENT KIDZ: $50k → 9%CHOSEN CARE INC: $15k → 10%REZILIENT KIDZ: $50k → 9%CHOSEN CARE INC: $10k → 10%REZILIENT KIDZ: $50k → 9%REZILIENT KIDZ: $50k → 9%REZILIENT KIDZ: $25k → 9%LOW VISION RESOURCE CENTR: $2k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%SA HOPE CENTER: $25k → 16%SA HOPE CENTER: $25k → 16%SA HOPE CENTER: $25k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $10k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 30 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$3.8M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+58%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • ST
    SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $840k · revenue +101%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO MARRIAGE INITIATIVE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +65%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $255k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HU
    HALLMARK UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -44%
  • PP
    P16 PLUS
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HOSPICE SAN ANTONIO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +42%
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
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

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2
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
3
Sa Talent Inc Sa Works

The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…

Education
4
San Antonio Report

Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.

Arts & Culture
5
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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6
Choose to Succeed Inc

To ensure that every family has access to exceptional, tuition-free public education options by attracting the nation's best public charter schools to san antonio, tx.

Philanthropy
7
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
8
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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9
San Antonio Council On Alcohol and Drug Awareness

To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.

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10
Sa Youth

The mission of sa youth is to develop the character, strengths, talents, and skills of san antonio's high-risk urban youth through fun, safe experiences, positive learning environments, and holistic programs that inspire each individual to…

Youth Development
11
Child Advocates San Antonio

To recruit, develop, and lead court-appointed volunteer advocates who provide constancy for abused and neglected children and youth while advocating for services and placement in safe and permanent homes.

Civil Rights
12
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas; the most unlike its peers is Dr James Dobson Family Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $840,000 · OtherSOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRISTECUMENICAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION COUNSELING HEALTH: $355,000 · OtherECUMENICAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION COUNSELING HEALTHSAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION: $255,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIOSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CENTER: $115,000 · Other+14 more: $371,700 · Other+14 moreSAN ANTONIO MARRIAGE INITIATIVE: $330,000 · ReligionSAN ANTONIO MARRIA…Dr James Dobson Family Institute: $175,000 · ReligionDr James Dobson Fa…HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC: $90,000 · ReligionHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS…MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionREZILIENTKIDZ: $275,000 · Human ServicesREZILIENTKIDZGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $85,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN …SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesSA CHRISTIAN HO…CHOSEN CARE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesCHOSEN CARE INCFamily Service Association of San Antonio Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $135,000 · EducationSUNSHINE COT…SCHOOL CONNECT SA: $100,000 · EducationSCHOOL CONNE…University of the Incarnate Word: $100,000 · EducationUniversity o…HALLMARK UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 · EducationHALLMARK UNI…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $30,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES …HEALY-MURPHY CENTER: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthRISE RECOVERY: $45,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF HOSPICE SAN ANTONIO INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyI CARE SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,000 · InternationalALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,161,700Religion$635,000Human Services$557,000Education$425,000Health$160,000Philanthropy$15,000International$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetSOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $840,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MARRIAGE INITIATIVE: $330,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetREZILIENTKIDZ: $275,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetSAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute: $175,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSCHOOL CONNECT SA: $100,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC: $90,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHOSEN CARE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRISE RECOVERY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION ROAD MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHALLMARK UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service Association of San Antonio Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALY-MURPHY CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOSPICE SAN ANTONIO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTrinity University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetI CARE SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMarriage Today: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOW VISION RESOURCE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO MARRIAGE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds REZILIENTKIDZ ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL CONNECT SA ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHOSEN CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HALLMARK UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN PREGNANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALY-MURPHY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOSPICE SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds I CARE SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Marriage Today ↗

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…Harvey E Najim Charit…Hannah FoundationNancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…St Luke's Lutheran He…Pryor Myra Stafford C…United Way of San Ant…Marcia & Otto Koehler…The Texas Cavaliers C…Methodist Healthcare …John R & Greli N Less…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX41.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Hannah Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324

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 Saint Susie Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saint Susie Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Saint Susie Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Saint Susie Charitable 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.

    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 44 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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