· Private foundation
The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of THE CARROLL AND MARGUERITE WHEELER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $795k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCMULLEN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $1,314,000 |
| TILDEN BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,255,000 |
| MAJESTY OUTDOORS | $1,010,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $470,000 |
| RISE AND SHINE CHILDCARE | $250,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX | $200,000 |
| FUEL 4 EDUCATION INC | $100,000 |
| HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| TILDEN LIVESTOCK SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| HUNGRY SOULS INC | $100,000 |
| MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES | $75,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHIRSTINE | $75,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO | $50,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 22 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMcMullen Co Community Development Corp7× · 2019–2025 · $3.6M · revenue ×19 · 97% of their budget
- MOMAJESTY OUTDOORS7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +121% · 46% of their budget
- TLTilden Livestock Scholarship Association6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +84% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMCMULLEN COUNTY 4-Hone grant, 2022 · $150k
- MCMCMULLEN COUNTY HOMESone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.
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.
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…
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.
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…
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gk Legacy 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 101 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds McMullen Co Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds MAJESTY OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association ↗
- Who funds Delivering Dreams of Arizona ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FUEL 4 EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds The University of Texas Law School Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY SOULS ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GK LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT ↗
- Who funds JOURDANTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Woman's Club of San Antonio ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
- Who funds College Station ISD Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Mary's University ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds OPMD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COURAGE RANCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992
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 The Carroll and Marguerite Wheeler 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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