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Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation at a glance

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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.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$39MCommunity Improvement$14MHuman Services$7.2MHousing & Shelter$2.4MYouth Development$2.2MEmployment$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+8 grants · $8.0M
$115,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$664k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS: $50k → 5%WHEELS OF SUCCESS: $50k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $125k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $125k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $125k → 14%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $265k → 11%American Red Cross Washington DC: $3k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $100k → 11%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER: $50k → 11%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $50k → 13%WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $50k → 13%WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $50k → 13%WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $50k → 13%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $75k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $320k → 14%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $165k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $100k → 14%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $90k → 14%EMPOWERING THE MASSES: $50k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION: $140k → 14%American Red Cross Greater Houston: $9k → 16%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION: $110k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $110k → 14%TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 14%CITY SQUARE: $50k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $50k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 14%WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $50k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $200k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $200k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $150k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $100k → 14%ON THE ROAD LENDING: $150k → 14%ON THE ROAD LENDING: $100k → 14%ON THE ROAD LENDING: $100k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $160k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $150k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $150k → 14%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER &SUPPORT: $135k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $50k → 14%SOUTHERN DALLAS LINK: $100k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $50k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
AZ
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67M · 46 repeat orgs$8.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
94

Total granted

$67M
$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+7%

Still filing today

96%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CI
    COMP-U-DOPT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35M · revenue +245% · 43% of their budget
  • VA
    VOGEL ALCOVE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +70%
  • P
    POETIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +48% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $800k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $345k
  • YU
    YEAR UP
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

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.…

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2
COMMIT2DALLAS

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…

Education
3
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
4
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc

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…

Employment
5
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
6
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
7
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
8
Center for Public Policy Priorities

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…

Public Benefit
9
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
10
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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11
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
12
VolunteerNow

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 151 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/107
Grantees still filing
64/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMP-U-DOPT INC: $35,000,000 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT INC+10 more: $2,793,860 · Education+10 moreOPERATION HOPE INC: $9,989,253 · OtherOPERATION HOPE INCCITY YEAR INC: $2,251,860 · OtherCITY YEAR INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $825,000 · Other+97 more: $11,176,158 · Other+97 moreVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,590,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOV…POETIC: $1,135,000 · Human ServicesPOETICTHE CONCILIO: $650,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILI…GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $595,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOM…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $525,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCEN…SOJOURNER CENTER: $515,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER C…TRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $460,000 · Human ServicesTRUSTED WOR…COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $415,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY E…OTR RESOURCES: $350,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE MASSES: $305,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $261,994 · Human Services+8 more: $925,000 · Human Services+8 moreDALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE: $875,000 · Community ImprovementBuilders of Hope CDC: $460,000 · Community ImprovementPASCO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $375,000 · Community ImprovementLIVE LOVE: $250,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN SECTOR RISING: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementT R HOOVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $100,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $143,333 · Community ImprovementSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $685,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $610,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCAFE MOMENTUM: $757,500 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $223,200 · Youth DevelopmentThe Lullaby House: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREY ATHLETES: $50,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $920,000 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES TO LIFE: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$37,793,860Other$24,242,271Human Services$7,726,994Community Improvement$2,403,333Housing & Shelter$1,345,000Youth Development$1,101,700Crime & Legal$970,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $35,000,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $9,989,253 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $2,251,860 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,590,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetPOETIC: $1,135,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $920,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $920,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE: $875,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetImpact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures: $840,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $825,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $757,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSAVE THE FAMILY FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $685,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE CONCILIO: $650,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $610,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $595,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $525,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $515,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTRUSTED WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $460,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBuilders of Hope CDC: $460,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $440,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $415,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $390,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPASCO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $375,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetAFTER8TOEDUCATE: $370,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $350,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOTR RESOURCES: $350,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetEMPOWERING THE MASSES: $305,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNORTH TEXAS JR GOLF AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $305,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT: $275,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $261,994 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LOVE: $250,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetYOUNG LEADERS STRONG CITY: $250,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $250,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC BRYANS HOUSE: $250,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $250,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMomentous Institute: $223,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FOOTPRINTS FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE DALLAS EC: $125,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWell Incorporated: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

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.

United Way of Metropo…Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe Addy FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Moody FoundationGeorge & Fay Young Fo…State Fair of TexasKatherine C Carmody C…
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX55.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Santander Consumer USA Inc Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 151 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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