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Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMP-U-DOPT INC | $2,549,936 |
| COMP-U-DOPT INC | $2,549,932 |
| OPERATION HOPE INC | $880,000 |
| OPERATION HOPE INC | $667,603 |
| COMP-U-DOPT INC | $404,885 |
| OPERATION HOPE INC | $333,802 |
| OPERATION HOPE INC | $333,802 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $320,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| POETIC | $185,000 |
| YEAR UP | $170,000 |
| NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE | $170,000 |
| DALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $147,055 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- CICOMP-U-DOPT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35M · revenue +245% · 43% of their budget
- VAVOGEL ALCOVE5× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +70%
- PPOETIC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- TNTHE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $800k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $345k
- YUYEAR UPone grant, 2021 · $300k
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.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
Our mission is that by 2040, at least half of all 25 to 34 year old residents of Dallas County, irrespective of race, will earn a living wage. Together, we cultivate a collaborative educational ecosystem with school systems, higher…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
VolunteerNow transforms lives through volunteers. As the hub of volunteerism in North Texas, and a national thought leader, VolunteerNow provides a wide range of programs and services to build capacity for nonprofit and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Footprints Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
107 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. 107 of the 151 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 COMP-U-DOPT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds POETIC ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds THE CONCILIO ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Builders of Hope CDC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PASCO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER8TOEDUCATE ↗
- Who funds United Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OTR RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING THE MASSES ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WALLS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE LOVE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES ↗
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 Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · State Fair of Texas · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw
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 Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation 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.
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- AmSkills Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Well Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Bess the Book Bus Inc — 0% of income from government
- 360 Eats — 0% of income from government
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.
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