How much did SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

heroesagainstcapital accountfreeingbarnsummer readingtechnology equipment

2019

a&m stationboard strengtheningcampus namingoblatevictims japanjapan earthquakeearthquake pacific

2020

covid emergencycovid responsecovid disastercovid reliefemergency responsedeservingresponse covid

2021

research educationbaylorcare researchprosperitygirl risingblrchild care

2022

habitatsstudents partnersscholarship studentslack financialaccessible abortionabortion providersbetterment

2023

bullyinguniversity'sacceptancecruelty animalsfree enterprisegeaascience advocacy

2024

epilepsy southcarterlittle angelsinclusive settingequine assistedassisted activitiesmaintain operate

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 379 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k55 grants · $398k
$10k–50k184 grants · $3.9M
$50k–250k108 grants · $10M
$250k+32 grants · $21M

$25,406

Median grant

States reached

$641M

Total assets

Largest grants

RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND$3,197,710
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - WASHINGTON DC$1,518,344
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY$1,358,848
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$1,020,500
AID THE SILENT$1,006,618
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$1,001,403
NEW BRAUNFELS FOOD BANK$809,350
BRIGHTON CENTER$760,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO$735,000
HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY$660,750
DORA MAAR CULTURAL CENTER$640,000
LIFTFUND INC$545,500
CENTERS FOR APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK$507,339
UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO$468,697
CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTITUTE CMI$466,286

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $45.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$245M · 561 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

561 repeat relationships — 312 still active in FY2024, 249 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

561

420

Total granted

$245M

$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+39%

Still filing today

83%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

SA
SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS
8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +81% · 41% of their budget
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +12%
SR
SANTA ROSA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA CHILDREN'S HO
8× · 2017–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +127% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

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TOGETHER EDUCATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $4.5M · revenue +261% · 47% of their budget
NC
NATIONAL COMPASSION FUND LLC
one grant, 2022 · $1.8M · revenue -16% · 47% of their budget
INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC
one grant, 2017 · $1.6M · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

San Antonio Regional Hospital

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people we serve.

Health

The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

The University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improve health care, advance biomedical science, and provide leadership & active stewardship of our land and other assets.

Health

San Antonio Area Foundation

The san antonio area foundation serves as your most trusted and impactful philantrhopic partner. the area foundation strives to close opportunity gaps for those who need it most.

Philanthropy

Greater Satx

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

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Southern Methodist University

The Primary mission of the university is education through research and teaching by creating and imparting knowledge that will shape citizens who contribute to their communities and lead professions in a global society.

Education

Christus Health Southeast Texas

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the teachings of the catholic church.

Health

Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development

Planned Parenthood San Antonio

Provide family planning and reproductive healthcare services to those in need.

Health

Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies

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Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Center of San Antonio and the most unlike its peers is Colgate University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%14/1,048

the rest of the field

13%

17,163/135,756

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.

05the grantee network

861 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

302

Early backer (in before they grew)

822/861

Grantees still filing

642/861

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$129,046,928Human Services$49,951,703Education$29,080,443Health$28,423,211Philanthropy$15,911,385Arts & Culture$11,740,002Animals$8,643,106

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.

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.

John L Santikos Charitable FoundationTX262× affinity171 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar · The Charity Ball Association Of · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable · St Luke's Lutheran Health · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100

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 organisation SAN ANTONIO AREA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BEE PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611934838 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BEE PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to San Antonio Area Foundation?

Find your warmest path to San Antonio Area Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

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The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines