· Private foundation
San Marcos Civic Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD | $28,675 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,515 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,625 |
| MARBLE FALLS ISD | $9,890 |
| SAN MARCOS CISD | $6,680 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,190 |
| Katherine Anne Porter School | $4,000 |
| BASTROP ISD | $3,580 |
| HILL COUNTRY DYSLEXIA CENTER | $3,100 |
| AUSTIN AREA BRANCH OF INTL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| LAKE TRAVIS ISD | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,550 |
| Summit Elementary | $1,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of San Marcos Civic Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 62%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDYSLEXIA CENTER OF AUSTIN3× · 2020–2022 · $26k · revenue +63%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN4× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +81%
- PCPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC2× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HCHays County Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +72%
- BIBURNET INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $8k
- TWThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
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…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
To make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
To teach our students to be life-long learners, who will actively participate in their own learning, remain engaged in the educational process and show mastery of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Austin Classical School exists to glorify Jesus Christ by co-laboring with families to cultivate wise, virtuous, and humble students through an excellent classical, Christian education.
To provide academically able students with a challenging educational experience designed to help them know, love and practice that which is true, good and excellent, and to prepare them to live purposefully and intelligently in the service…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
Rawson saunders is the only full-curriculum school for dyslexic students in central texas. we offer a customized schedule tailored to each individual student, so every student can have the extraordinary educational experience that they…
To work in an educational partnership with families. we desire to provide a distinctive environment of educational opportunity for all children and young people in our community. to become well prepared, life-long learners possessing…
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DYSLEXIA CENTER OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Hays County Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ADSI ↗
- Who funds CEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAGELLAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DBA ST FRANCIS SCHOOL ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Share Our Strength · St David's Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization San Marcos Civic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Marcos Civic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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