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Swbc Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$503k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$851kArts & Culture$839kPhilanthropy$273kCommunity Improvement$225kEnvironment$167kYouth Development$116kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $503k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION$503,239
REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION$200,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$50,000
NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS INC$50,000
BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION$44,000
BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
SA TALENT INC$25,000
THE VALOR CLUB INC$15,000
TEXAS BUSINESS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION$15,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SOUTH TEXAS INC$10,000
GARDEN OF EDEN FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY$9,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SOUTH TEXAS INC$5,000
HAVEN FOR HOPE$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $523k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS INC: $100k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS INC: $50k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS INC: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $50k → 16%SILVER & BLACK GIVE BACK: $50k → 16%SILVER & BLACK GIVE BACK: $10k → 16%SILVER & BLACK GIVE BACK: $4k → 16%SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 16%SILVER & BLACK GIVE BACK: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WI
NY
OR
PA
CA
NE
VA
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of Swbc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Swbc Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 25 repeat orgs$953k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
21

Total granted

$4.4M
$733k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CC
    CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $703k · revenue +127%
  • MO
    MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +27%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $257k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • WM
    Witte Museum
    one grant, 2023 · $167k · revenue +11%
  • BP
    Brackenridge Park Conservancy
    one grant, 2023 · $167k · revenue -42%
  • SM
    St Mary's Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +25%

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.

1
San Antonio Medical Foundation

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.

Health
2
San Antonio Area Foundation

To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.

Philanthropy
3
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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4
San Antonio Hospital Foundation Inc

To develop the resources to support san antonio regional hospital's mission to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.

Health
5
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
6
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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7
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the san antonio hispanic chamber of commerce is to advocate in building a better san antonio through the growth and prosperity of hispanic, small minority, women-owned businesses, and hispanic professional and trade…

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8
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
9
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
10
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Garden of Eden Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Performing Arts C…Disability Support ServicesSenior Services and HousingTexas Policy & Education Ad…Wounded Veteran Support Ser…
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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%5%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr12%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%18%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
16%
8,249/52,199

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

40 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. 40 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY — $800,000 · OtherSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITYSt Mary's University — $100,000 · OtherSt Mary's UniversityST PETER-ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOME — $50,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherBrackenridge Park Conservancy — $166,666 · OtherBrackenridge Park ConservancyBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $101,000 · OtherBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF…+16 more — $210,000 · Other+16 moreCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $703,239 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S F…American Heart Association Inc — $210,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associ…HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Health+2 more — $43,750 · HealthSIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationSIGMA PHI EPSILON …BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART — $247,000 · EducationBEXAR COUNTY PERFO…University of the Incarnate Word — $220,000 · EducationUniversity of the …SA TALENT INC SA WORKS — $75,000 · EducationSA TALENT INC SA W…P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc — $40,000 · Education+2 more — $50,000 · Education+2 moreMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION — $325,000 · PhilanthropyMBA OPENS DOO…UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $257,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $16,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MED…Remember the Alamo Foundation — $200,000 · Arts & CultureRemember the…Witte Museum — $166,666 · Arts & CultureWitte MuseumMusical Bridges Around the World Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $250,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS B…Jewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesJewish Fami…SPURS GIVE — $68,000 · Human ServicesSPURS GIVE+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesLIFTFUND INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation — $25,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,477,666Health$996,989Education$882,000Philanthropy$623,000Arts & Culture$591,666Human Services$523,000Community Improvement$245,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $703,239 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $257,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $250,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART — $247,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word — $220,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIFTFUND INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Antonio Texas Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetWitte Museum — $166,666 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBrackenridge Park Conservancy — $166,666 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC — $101,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSt Mary's University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSA TALENT INC SA WORKS — $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSPURS GIVE — $68,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFeeding America — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $28,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROADRUNNER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMBIAR EDUCATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Business Hall of Fame Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCCU FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRO DE SALUD FAMILIAR LA FE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation — $8,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN ANTONIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Greater Houston Commu…Faye L & William L Co…Impetus FoundationThe Texas Cavaliers C…Elizabeth Huth Coates…John R & Greli N Less…Betty Stieren Kelso F…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Nustar FoundationThe Brown Foundation …
San Antonio Area FoundationTX34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Impetus Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Nustar Foundation · The Brown Foundation 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 organization Swbc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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