· 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 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.
How this is measured
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 |
| REDWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREATER SAN MARCOS YOUTH COUNCIL | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +6%
Funded once
- SFSCHOOL FUELone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SCSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MSMERMAID SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization San Marcos Lions International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Marcos Lions International. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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