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Seven Cities 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $3,147,586 |
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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
- RARED ARENA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +231%
- WCWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +71%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD FAMILY ROOMone grant, 2024 · $4k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -4%
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.
The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
Assisting veterans, military personnel and their families, advocacy for veterans and active duty personnel, historical education and commemoration, promoting patriotism, youth activities and community service. see supplemental information…
Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
The texas veterinary medical foundation is committed to supporting the veterinary profession and our communities in texas by providing resources, education, and programs for the responsible stewardship of animals.
Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.
The range foundation exists to advance education, research, and public benefit activities that support the mission of the range 501(c)(6) in driving innovation and sustainable development in the texas panhandle
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The objects of this organization shall be fraternal patriotic historical charitable and educational; to assist the Posts and members of thereof of the Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW of the United States and its own members whenever possible;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered and the most unlike its peers is St Therese Academy. 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 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 87 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 RED ARENA INC ↗
- Who funds St Therese Academy ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FRONTERA AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds C A M P UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEAM JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMING KING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds VANNIE E COOK JR CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PALMER DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM ↗
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: Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Tony L Talbott & Carmen C Talbott Foundation Inc · Klinck Foundation · The Betty Bentsen Winn Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie 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 Seven Cities 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% 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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