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San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association at a glance

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San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association

Continuing legal education and support.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$152kCrime & Legal$122kFood & Nutrition$21kHuman Services$20k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $101,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $110,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$293k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION$53,500
TEXAS WATCH$30,000
MAGDALENA HOUSE$10,000
BEXAR COUNTY WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $54k → 10%MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $5k → 14%CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO (CASA): $6k → 16%TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK INC: $11k → 16%TEXAS WATCH: $30k → 10%SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $10k → 16%TEXAS WATCH: $25k → 10%TEXAS WATCH: $25k → 10%TEXAS WATCH: $29k → 10%TEXAS WATCH: $23k → 10%TEXAS WATCH: $20k → 10%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 3 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$276k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
Crime & LegalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • TW
    TEXAS WATCH
    6× · 2018–2024 · $152k · revenue +31%
  • TT
    TEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $104k · revenue +17%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • MA
    MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
2
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
3
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
4
Amarillo Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers

Civil Rights
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa of Liberty/Chambers Counties

None

Human Services
6
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

—
7
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
8
Casa of Central Texas Inc

Advocates for children

Civil Rights
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Denton County Inc

To provide trained community volunteers, to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children, and to promote community awareness about child abuse issues.

Civil Rights
10
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

—
11
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
12
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates San Antonio; the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater San Antonio. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS WATCH: $151,500 · Public BenefitTEXAS WATCHTEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $103,501 · OtherTEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATIONSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $21,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN…BEXAR COUNTY WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Crime & LegalMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $5,000 · Crime & LegalMAGDALENA MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $6,407 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$151,500Other$134,501Crime & Legal$12,500Human Services$10,000Civil Rights$6,407

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 budgetTEXAS WATCH: $151,500 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetTEXAS TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $103,501 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGDALENA MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEXAR COUNTY WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $6,407 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 8 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 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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