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Smothers Bruni 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
- Under $10k28 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Battle of Flowers Association | $25,000 |
| Franciscan Friars of Hebbronville Inc | $20,000 |
| Bryn Mawr College | $10,000 |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $7,500 |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $5,000 |
| Dartmoor Pony Registry of America Inc | $5,000 |
| Alamo Heights United Methodist Church | $5,000 |
| Consejo Real De Reyes Feos Anteriores Inc | $5,000 |
| Free & Fair Litigation Group | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Champions Educational Foundation | $5,000 |
| Equus Survival Trust | $5,000 |
| Bryn Mawr College | $5,000 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $5,000 |
| Saving Shelter Strays Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- MIMOMMIES IN NEED3× · 2021–2023 · $61k · revenue +90%
- MCMAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +42%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- APAnnie's Place dba Mommies In Needone grant, 2024 · $23k
- BTBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
- MAMCNAY ART MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -22%
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.
Texas ballet theater creates, presents, and tours world class ballet, from classical to cutting edge, and promotes its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages.
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…
See schedule osan antonio academy of texas offers prekindergarten through eighth grade boys an exceptional academic program that features small classes, a family-like atmosphere, the development of a positive self image and a foundation…
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Marys Hall Inc and the most unlike its peers is Champions Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 41 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 BATTLE OF FLOWERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOMMIES IN NEED ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF HEBBRONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FREE AND FAIR LITIGATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CONSEJO REAL DE REYES FEOS ANTERIORES INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING SHELTER STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Pipe Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds Champions Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds A Doggie 4 You ↗
- Who funds BOYSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
- Who funds Hooker Ranch Slaughter Horse Rescue ↗
- Who funds Triple H Equitherapy Center ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Smothers Bruni 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.
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.