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San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return

To make grants for charitable purposes to community organizations and schools on behalf of students for scholarships, and to individuals for intern stipends.

$7.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$33MPhilanthropy$5.1MFood & Nutrition$2.8MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$820kYouth Development$321kRecreation & Sports$240kArts & Culture$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $7,071,159 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,776,172 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $705,013 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

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.5M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$2,996,225
FUTURO EDUCATION SA$1,534,394
COMPASS ROSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$421,205
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC - SAN ANTONIO$287,500
CELEBRATE DYSLEXIA SCHOOLS$256,500
TGP PUBLIC SCHOOLS (THE GATHERING PLACE)$200,000
ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$167,000
UTSA - COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (GRANTS)$165,625
VALOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION$161,000
ESSENCE PREP INC$127,500
NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (FRMLY NEW FRONTIERS CHARTER SCHOOL)$122,500
50CAN INC$100,000
CENTERS FOR APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NETWORK CAST$100,000
BE KIND SAN ANTONIO$100,000
RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$99,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–22, $801k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN TEXAS REGION INC: $100k → 7%SAN ANTONIO AMPUTEE FOUNDATION: $14k → 16%FRIENDSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $109k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN ANTONIO: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $100k → 16%BOYSVILLE INC: $100k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO: $41k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $40k → 16%RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $40k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO: $30k → 16%ALAMO HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC: $17k → 16%ALAMO HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC: $17k → 16%PRESA COMMUNITY CENTER: $33k → 16%PRESA COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%MISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $5k → 16%RIDE CONNECT TEXAS: $20k → 16%SOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE DBA RIDE CONNECT TEXAS: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return’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, 80% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

San Antonio Area Foundation Group Returnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$35M · 51 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
38

Total granted

$35M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

82%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $397k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +9%
  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +257%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • AE
    ARRAY EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.4M · revenue +170%
  • MH
    Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Incgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $205k · revenue +36%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION MUNICIPAL DEVELOMPENT
    one grant, 2020 · $148k

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.

1
Southwest Winners Foundation Inc

The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.

Education
2
Riverwalk Education Foundation Inc

Our mission drives academic and socio-emotional development (see Schedule O) through a rigorous college preparatory, STEM-based learning model. The model is anchored on 21st century skills, embraced by a character-building approach, and…

Education
3
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
4
Basis Texas Charter Schools Inc

The mission of basis texas charter schools is to empower students to achieve at globally competitive levels with a transformative k-12 academic program.

Education
5
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
6
Texas Programs for Alternative Education

Texas program for alternative education has been created to operate as a public charter school in texas serving students with learning disabilities. we strive to redefine what it means to be unique in the educational and social setting…

Education
7
Discovery School of San Antonio

At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…

Education
8
San Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership

The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…

Education
9
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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10
St Anthony Foundation

St. Anthony's mission is to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who make better decisions for themselves and the world through intercultural understanding and respect. The school focuses on curriculum, innovative…

Education
11
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
12
Futuro San Antonio

Futuro San Antonio mobilizes families to organize and advocate for education equity by engaging voters, building organizing capacity, and endorsing educational champions. See Schedule O

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Frontiers Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Prosthetic Foundation. 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 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr17%20%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%6%<5yr17%12%5–10yr18%31%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr10%10%35–55yr15%8%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/97
the rest of the field
15%
1,087/7,101

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

86 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. 86 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/86
Grantees still filing
66/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $5,357,960 · EducationRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONIDEA Public Schools — $3,481,367 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsTrinity University — $1,835,168 · EducationTrinity UniversityFuturo Education San Antonio — $1,644,394 · EducationFuturo Education San AntonioCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC — $1,579,205 · EducationCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INCARRAY EDUCATION INC — $1,399,650 · EducationARRAY EDUCATION INCTeach for America Inc — $1,330,063 · EducationTeach for America IncNEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $1,092,500 · EducationTGP Public Schools — $933,500 · Education+27 more — $3,966,913 · Education+27 moreKIPP SAN ANTONIO INC — $3,874,126 · OtherKIPP SAN ANTONIO INCSan Antonio Independent School District — $2,850,105 · OtherSan Antonio Independent Schoo…SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $2,657,349 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO — $514,199 · Other+28 more — $1,527,645 · Other+28 moreSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $3,343,228 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO ARE…San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $2,409,405 · PhilanthropySan Antonio Fou…+3 more — $153,000 · PhilanthropyNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,581,165 · Environment+1 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $341,200 · HealthMethodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc — $205,316 · HealthCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( — $95,000 · HealthProject MEND — $92,000 · HealthBELIEVE IT FOUNDATION — $90,000 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $40,000 · HealthFRIENDSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $109,200 · Human ServicesSJRC TEXAS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesBOYSVILLE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesJewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $80,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $71,000 · Human ServicesPRESA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $58,000 · Human ServicesSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER — $38,671 · Human ServicesALAMO HEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE — $30,000 · Human Services+2 more — $19,000 · Human Services100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentUrban Faith Mission — $14,080 · Youth Development
Education$22,620,720Other$11,423,424Philanthropy$5,905,633Environment$1,606,165Health$863,516Human Services$839,871Youth Development$314,080

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $5,357,960 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetKIPP SAN ANTONIO INC — $3,874,126 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $3,481,367 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $3,343,228 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $2,657,349 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc — $2,409,405 over 4y, 11% of budgetTrinity University — $1,835,168 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,581,165 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC — $1,579,205 over 4y, 16% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC — $1,399,650 over 1y, 14% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,330,063 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $1,092,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetTGP Public Schools — $933,500 over 4y, 46% of budgetPROMESA ACADEMY INC — $725,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetESSENCE PREP INC — $497,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCenter For Applied Science & Technology Network — $484,963 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $341,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCELEBRATE DYSLEXIA — $283,500 over 2y, 37% of budgetPRELUDE PREPARATORY INC — $211,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMethodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc — $205,316 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Royal School System — $180,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC — $175,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS — $175,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetValor Education Foundation — $161,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO — $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL — $125,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOPS METRO EDUCATION FUND — $123,750 over 1y, 63% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $118,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget50CAN INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $109,200 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOMERSET ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYSVILLE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBE KIND SAN ANTONIO INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTBI WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $97,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( — $95,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetProject MEND — $92,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBELIEVE IT FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRespite Care of San Antonio Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMorgan's Wonderland — $80,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSkew The Script — $75,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetStudent Alternatives Program Incorporated — $72,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $71,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budget
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.

San Antonio Area Foun…The Texas Cavaliers C…Faye L & William L Co…Harvey E Najim Charit…John L Santikos Chari…Mays Family FoundationThe Charity Ball Asso…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…St Luke's Lutheran He…50can IncSan Antonio Food BankPryor Myra Stafford C…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX82.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · 50can Inc · San Antonio Food Bank · 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 organization San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return?

    Find your warmest path to San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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