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Spirit of Giving Fund

Combat hunger and malnutrition by providing emergency food, housing, and miscellaneous aid for those in need;Catastrophic/Disaster Relief

$327k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$295k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$136,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Spirit of Giving Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$295k50%
FY20233$156k67%
FY202218$1.0M100%
FY20212$131k100%
FY20202$29k100%
FY20196$221kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$534kHealth$334kHuman Services$245kHousing & Shelter$168kFood & Nutrition$150kEducation$148kArts & Culture$125kPublic Benefit$63kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rebuilding Together Houston$335,67619%
Communities in Schools of San Antonio$236,00021%
Rockport Art Association Inc$125,00017%
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas$112,00010%
Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas$100,00011%
Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc$100,00010%
American Farmland Trust$100,00010%
Clark Hill Plc$80,8023n/a
Oran Construction$74,6941n/a
Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home$63,6541n/a
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All grantees of Spirit of Giving Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rebuilding Together Houston$335,67619%
Communities in Schools of San Antonio$236,00021%
Rockport Art Association Inc$125,00017%
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas$112,00010%
Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas$100,00011%
Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc$100,00010%
American Farmland Trust$100,00010%
Clark Hill Plc$80,8023n/a
Oran Construction$74,6941n/a
Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home$63,6541n/a
Mainland Childrens Partnership$50,00013%
Texsar Inc$50,00014%
Sacred Heart Catholic School$50,0001n/a
Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce Foundation$50,00019%
Ucisd PTO$37,500112%
Beldon Roofing Company$31,1991n/a
Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc$25,00011%
Rockport Hands of Hope$25,0001n/a
Spawglass Contractors Inc$23,3871n/a
Clarity Child Guidance Center$21,90010%
The Safe Alliance$20,00010%
Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc$15,00010%
Vincare Services of Austin Foundation$15,00011%
Foundation Communities Inc$15,00010%
AC Technical Services LLC$13,1041n/a
United Way of the Crossroads$13,00011%
Rushing Estes Knowles Mortuary Inc$11,4241n/a
Uvalde Classical Academy$10,00012%
United Way for Greater Austin$10,00010%
Flory Construction$8,3351n/a
T Donovan Creative$5,9671n/a
First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs$5,6681n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spirit of Giving Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRebuilding Together Houston: $335,676 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCommunities in Schools of San Antonio: $236,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRockport Art Association Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMeadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas: $112,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Bereavement Center of South Texas: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFamily Service Association of San Antonio Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Farmland Trust: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMainland Childrens Partnership: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTexsar Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPort Aransas Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetUcisd PTO: $37,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetClarity Child Guidance Center: $21,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Safe Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMobile Loaves & Fishes Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVincare Services of Austin Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation Communities Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Crossroads: $13,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUvalde Classical Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way for Greater Austin: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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 San Antonio and Bexar CountyTX19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · The Onestar Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Genevieve & Ward Orsinger Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324

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.

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How do I get to Spirit of Giving Fund?

Find your warmest path to Spirit of Giving Fund 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.

About Spirit of Giving Fund

How much does Spirit of Giving Fund give?
Spirit of Giving Fund reported 4 itemized grants totaling $295,002, out of $326,982 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Spirit of Giving Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (29%), Health (18%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Spirit of Giving Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Rebuilding Together Houston ($336k), Communities in Schools of San Antonio ($236k), Rockport Art Association Inc ($125k).
Does Spirit of Giving Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spirit of Giving Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, The Onestar Foundation.
Where is Spirit of Giving Fund based?
Spirit of Giving Fund is based in TX.

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 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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