· Public charity
San Marcos Lions International
To support community and international activities including providing resources to individuals who are blind or who have severe vision problems; provide scholarships to local area students; assist local charities in the continuation of their programs
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 19 grants below total $243,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $402,256 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $159,006 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 $10k10 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN MARCOS LIONS CHARITIES (SCHOLAR | $59,500 |
| SAN MARCOS LIONS CHARITIES (ENDOW) | $30,000 |
| CASA OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL FUEL | $12,500 |
| CITY OF SAN MARCOS PARKS & RECREATI | $12,500 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREATER SAN MARCOS YOUTH COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| REDWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MISSION ABLE | $10,000 |
| HAYS COUNTY FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| HAYS COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE BOARD | $8,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| VFW POST 3413 | $7,500 |
| MEDICAL EXPLORERS | $7,000 |
| CITY OF SAN MARCOS | $6,750 |
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 (FY18–24, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +7% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- COCASA of Central Texas Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +41%
- GSGreater San Marcos Youth Council Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +148%
- HWHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SFSCHOOL FUELone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MSMERMAID SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SMSAN MARCOS COMMUNITY AND POLICE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -37%
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.
Cooperative pre-school serving 50+ families. family members participate in school operations and attend learning sessions
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
To keep communities healthy and strong by leveraging partnerships with local regional governments, area hospitals, and local health-care providers. To provide excellent patient care to local taxpayers.
Child Advocacy
Provides services and programs for the San Marcos, Texas
To enhance the ability of families to protect, nuture, and educate their children in the first five years of life and enable them to enter school ready to learn.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
Hays County Brown Santa is dedicated to supporting families in need during the holiday season through acts of kindness, volunteerism, and community-ensuring families in Hays County feel remembered, cared for, and valued.
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
We are a one hundred percent volunteer organization working to help meet the needs of underprivileged children in Hunt County Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Able and the most unlike its peers is Books Are the Beginning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 27 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
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 SAN MARCOS LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Central Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater San Marcos Youth Council Inc ↗
- Who funds HAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FUEL DBA SCHOOL FUEL SAN MARCOS ↗
- Who funds MISSION ABLE ↗
- Who funds SAN MARCOS COMMUNITY AND POLICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hays County Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BOOKS ARE THE BEGINNING ↗
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: United Way of Hays County · St David's Foundation · Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation · Carson Family Foundation · Ingram Family Foundation · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Marcos Lions International 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.
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.