Texas · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $7.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,996,225
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $639k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $4.1M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $4.8M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $2.2M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $4.4M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $8.3M | 67% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $5.6M | 55% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $7.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relay Graduate School of Education | $5,357,960 | 5 | 5% |
| Kipp San Antonio Inc | $3,874,126 | 7 | 4% |
| IDEA Public Schools | $3,481,367 | 6 | 1% |
| San Antonio Independent School District | $2,850,105 | 4 | n/a |
| San Antonio Food Bank | $2,657,349 | 4 | 1% |
| San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $2,409,405 | 4 | 11% |
| Trinity University | $1,835,168 | 4 | 0% |
| Futuro Education San Antonio | $1,644,394 | 2 | n/a |
| Compass Rose Education Inc | $1,579,205 | 4 | 16% |
| Array Education Inc | $1,399,650 | 1 | 14% |
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Where it is load-bearing
San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return
- How much does San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return give?
- San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return reported 24 itemized grants totaling $7,071,159, out of $7,776,172 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (75%), Philanthropy (12%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Relay Graduate School of Education ($5.4M), Kipp San Antonio Inc ($3.9M), IDEA Public Schools ($3.5M).
- Does San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation, Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation.
- Where is San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return based?
- San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return is based in TX.
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