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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $295,002, the rows itemized in this filing. The $326,982 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,980 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $286k
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Communities in Schools of San Antonio$136,000
American Farmland Trust$100,000
TEXSAR$50,000
Clark Hill PLC$9,002
02The need
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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 (FY19–23, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Jewish Family Svc of San Antonio Inc: $25k → 16%Port Aransas ChmbrComm Found: $50k → 17%The Childrens Bereavement Ctr Of SA: $100k → 16%Family Service Association: $100k → 16%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Spirit of Giving Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 82%.

Spirit of Giving Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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.

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Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
2
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
3
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

Human Services
4
Pta Texas Congress

To make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.

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5
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
6
Healthy Families San Angelo

To enhance the ability of families to protect, nuture, and educate their children in the first five years of life and enable them to enter school ready to learn.

—
7
San Antonio Council On Alcohol and Drug Awareness

To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.

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8
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
9
Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council

To reduce death/disability related to trauma, disaster and acute illness through implementation of a well-planned and coordinated regional emergency response system.

Health
10
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
11
Communities in Schools of the South Plains Inc

To meet the needs of students in at-risk situations by improving academics, marketable skills, attendance, and behavior through the partnership of school, home, and community so that young people stay in school, learn successfully and…

Youth Development
12
Lone Star Justice Alliance

Lone star justice alliance (lsja) was established in 2017 as a non-profit legal organization to boldly address systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas; the most unlike its peers is American Farmland Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLARK HILL PLC: $80,802 · OtherCLARK HILL PLCOran Construction: $74,694 · OtherOran ConstructionHillcrest Memorial Funeral Home: $63,654 · OtherHillcrest Memorial Funeral HomeSacred Heart Catholic School: $50,000 · OtherSacred Heart Catholic SchoolBeldon Roofing Company: $31,199 · OtherBeldon Roofing CompanySpawglass Contractors Inc: $23,387 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherMAINLAND CHILDRENS PARTNERSHIP: $50,000 · OtherMAINLAND CHILDRENS PARTNERSHIPTEXSAR INC: $50,000 · OtherTEXSAR INCROCKPORT HANDS OF HOPE: $25,000 · Other+9 more: $97,498 · Other+9 moreRebuilding Together Houston: $335,676 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together H…FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $236,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SC…UCISD PTO: $37,500 · EducationUCISD PTOUVALDE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAV…Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesFamily Service A…PORT ARANSAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesPORT ARANSAS CHA…Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesJewish Family Se…MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $112,000 · HealthCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER: $21,900 · HealthRockport Art Association Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$566,234Housing & Shelter$350,676Education$283,500Human Services$275,000Health$133,900Arts & Culture$125,000Food & Nutrition$100,000

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

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
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 San Ant…Texas Mutual Insuranc…The Onestar FoundationMethodist Healthcare …Greater Houston Commu…St Luke's Lutheran He…The Texas Cavaliers C…Faye L & William L Co…Shield-Ayres Foundati…The Brown Foundation …Genevieve & Ward Orsi…John R & Greli N Less…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spirit of Giving Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spirit of Giving Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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.
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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.

    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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