· Community foundation
San Antonio Area Foundation
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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.
The 379 grants below total $35,418,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,323,810 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,905,435 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $398k
- $10k–50k184 grants · $3.9M
- $50k–250k108 grants · $10M
- $250k+32 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $45.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
550 repeat relationships — 306 still active in FY2024, 244 since wound down; 64 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- SASAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +80% · 41% of their budget
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +60%
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +72% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- AEARRAY EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4.5M · revenue +170% · 47% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.8M · revenue +29% · 47% of their budget
INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INCone 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.
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.
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.
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.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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,…
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
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.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Through a coordinated community response, the forensic center empowers victims, promotes healing and creates innovative and comprehensive solutions to fill gaps in victim services.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bcfs Health and Human Services and the most unlike its peers is Bamberger Ranch Preserve. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
866 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. 866 of the 1,045 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Morgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARRAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Center For Applied Science & Technology Network ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELP ONE NOW ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SJRC TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds RISE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN HOUSE ↗
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: John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc
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 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.