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The Beldon Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$315k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$944kYouth Development$150kFood & Nutrition$100kHousing & Shelter$75kAnimals$65kHuman Services$25kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION$150,000
PRE-K 4 SA$125,000
BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
ROY MAAS YOUTH ALTERNATIVES FOUNDATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $25k) 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%THE MORGAN'S WONDERLAND INCLUSION FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $602k · revenue +16%
  • RM
    ROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $165k · revenue +157%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO
    2× · 2020–2021 · $65k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • HF
    Haven for Hope of Bexar County
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -9%
  • SA
    San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its 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.

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
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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4
San Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership

The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…

Education
5
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
6
Choose to Succeed Inc

To ensure that every family has access to exceptional, tuition-free public education options by attracting the nation's best public charter schools to san antonio, tx.

Philanthropy
7
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

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8
Texas a&M San Antonio Foundation

To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community

Education
9
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
10
Connectability

ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.

Human Services
11
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
12
Coastal Bend Community Foundation

To enhance the quality of life in the coastal bend area of texas through charitable and educational grants.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Hope of Bexar County; the most unlike its peers is The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $602,440 · EducationALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $50,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIOTEACHERS 4 TOTS PROGRAM (PRE-K 4 SA): $305,000 · OtherTEACHERS 4 TOTS PROGRAM (PRE-K 4 SA)SAN ANTONIO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION MUNICIPAL DEVELOMPENT: $125,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION MU…SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $71,917 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN+1 more: $5,000 · OtherROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES FOUNDATION: $165,000 · PhilanthropyROY MAAS' YOUTH…San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $65,000 · PhilanthropySan Antonio Fou…Haven for Hope of Bexar County: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT): $64,904 · AnimalsTHE BLOOD & TISSUE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation: $25,000 · Human Services
Education$652,440Other$606,917Philanthropy$230,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Animals$64,904Health$30,000Human Services$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC: $602,440 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT): $64,904 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 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.

Harvey E Najim Charitable FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Beldon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beldon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 The Beldon Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Beldon Family Foundation 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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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