How much did SOUTH TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of SOUTH TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

—

2022

ladyartscatholic churcho'connor

2023

catholic churcho'connor

2024

catholic church

2025

chartiable educationalartscatholic churchcancer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $121k
$10k–50k10 grants · $217k
$50k–250k2 grants · $258k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE ORANGE SHOW FOUNDATION$208,333
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL$50,000
MANHATTAN ART PROGRAM$48,600
ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$31,400
THE TEXAS ZOO$23,500
FRIENDS OF VICTORIA BRONTE LIBRARY$21,500
GRACE RANCH RIDING INC$21,500
ST GEORGE CATHOLIC CHURCH$16,000
FOOD BANK OF GOLDEN CRESCENT$14,000
CHRIST'S KITCHEN$14,000
ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON$13,500
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CTR$12,800
BELLES BUDS RESCUE$8,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH$8,000
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL$8,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.5M · 50 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+51%

Still filing today

52%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

MA
MANHATTAN ART PROGRAM
9× · 2017–2025 · $933k · revenue +8% · 100% of their budget
TO
THE ORANGE SHOW FOUNDATION
4× · 2022–2025 · $525k · revenue +160%
SG
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +25%

Funded once

NL
NO LONGER EMPTY INC
one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -73%
TH
THE HISTIO CURE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -85%
BC
BALLROOM CULTRAL ARTS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Houston Museum of Decorative Arts

The mission of the houston museum of decorative arts is to preserve, enhance, present, and promote the decorative art collection of the late anna safley houston for public understanding, education, and enjoyment; to increase public…

Arts & Culture

Victoria Foundation Inc

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Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation

To provide a cultural center for the benefit of East Los Angeles College and it's community through the collection and exhibition of art.

Arts & Culture

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The virginia museum of fine arts foundation (foundation) was founded in 1976 to support the virginia museum of fine arts (museum), an agency of the commonwealth of virginia. to accomplish its mission, the foundation administers a…

Arts & Culture

Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) serves as a valuable resources for the Houston community, offering extensive collections, exciting interactive exhibits, immersive environments, engaging films, compelling traveling exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture

Victoria Sousa Foundation

Education

Museum of Fine Arts

The museum of fine arts houses and preserves preeminent collections and aspires to serve a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art in order to encourage inquiry and to heighten public understanding and…

Arts & Culture

Kimbell Art Foundation

Arts & Culture

Vicinft Foundation

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Inspire diverse audiences through exhibitions, education, publications & collections.

Arts & Culture

St Vincent Hospital

To provide a healing ministry to improve lives through excellent, compassionate health care to the corporation's community and support medical instruction and research.

Health

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation

The purpose of the Foundation is to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts, to collect and exhibit significant works of art, & to manage and support an institution where these works of art may be housed and displayed for the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victoria Preservation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hotchkiss School. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/41

the rest of the field

13%

17,176/136,763

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.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

27/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,116,769Arts & Culture$1,557,013Education$446,550Human Services$413,500Health$219,300Animals$31,000Philanthropy$15,000

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.

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.

The O'Connor & Hewitt FoundationTX33.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Overlake Foundation Inc · The Kathryn O'Connor Foundation · Dick Albert & Mary Charitable Tr · Peach Mott Foundation Inc · York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · Wood Family Memorial Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 organisation SOUTH TEXAS CHARITABLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MANHATTAN ART PROGRAM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061588655 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MANHATTAN ART PROGRAM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to South Texas Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to South Texas Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SOUTH TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Texas Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SOUTH TEXAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Texas Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph