· Private foundation
The Bamberger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Gathering Place | $19,060 |
| Heritage Elementary School | $15,810 |
| TriPoint Academy | $12,656 |
| Julian C Gallardo Elementary School | $8,015 |
| Freedom Elementary School | $8,015 |
| Pearce Elementary School | $8,015 |
| Candlewood Elementary School | $7,510 |
| The Twin Sisters Dance Hall | $5,000 |
| Lochte Feed General Store | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,760 |
| Blanco County Emergency Serv | $2,000 |
| Blanco Co Youth Council | $1,500 |
| Johnson City Vol Fire Dept | $1,000 |
| Friends of Johnson City Library | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMROUND MTN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +175%
- JCJOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPT6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +68%
- SVSTONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- OBOld Blanco County Courthouseone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RCRuben Chavira Elementary Schoolone grant, 2024 · $8k
- AEArnold Elementary Schoolone grant, 2024 · $8k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide Fire Protection and Emergency Services
Provide fire suppression and first responder services to the Boerne, Tx area as well as provide support to the Boerne Fire Department.
Indian creek volunteer fire department provides fire, rescue, and emergency medical services to the indian creek fire district in cooke county, texas.
Providing fire and rescue services to the residents in the unincorporated area of precinct 5 in north gregg county, texas
To provide fire and emergency services for the citizens who reside within the emergency services district no. 7's boundaries located within the unincorporated areas of bexar county, texas.
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Providing fire protection and medical assistance to residents in the hunt, texas community
Providing volunteer fire-fighting services on the west side of Possum Kingdom Lake in Palo Pinto County.
Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.
Fire prevention, fire supression and rescue in florence texas and the williamson county emergency services district 7 area.
The elmo volunteer fire department is dedicated to providing fire and rescue protection to the citizens and businesses of the elmo, texas community.
The Poteet VFD is a 100% volunteer organization. In addition to responding to fires, vehicles accidents, medical emergencies and public assistance, the VFD is also trained to handle vehicle extrication.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TGP Public Schools ↗
- Who funds ROUND MTN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds NORTH BLANCO COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Crowe's Nest Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CITY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MILL ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Create Healthy Management ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bamberger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bamberger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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