· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc
To foster a thriving hill country by raising funds, making grants, and stewarding charitable resources for the region.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC’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.
The 136 grants below total $5,516,981 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,327,709 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $810,728 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $247k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY KERR COUNTY | $300,380 |
| DER STADISCHE FRIEDHOF FREDERICKSBURG | $300,000 |
| SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY | $300,000 |
| AMBLESIDE SCHOOL OF FREDRICKSBURG | $253,000 |
| OUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI | $250,000 |
| EL PROGRESO MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $227,500 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH | $225,000 |
| KABOOM | $205,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $160,200 |
| MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH | $116,145 |
| HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL | $101,250 |
| FEEDING TEXAS | $100,000 |
| STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| KERR COUNTY 4-H | $91,600 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
137 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- PHPETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +211% · 71% of their budget
- CMCHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +115% · 35% of their budget
- TTTHE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue ×90 · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +29% · 30% of their budget
- TUTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SAone grant, 2022 · $400k
- MOMissionaries of the New Evangelizationone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -65% · 48% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bcfs Health and Human Services and the most unlike its peers is Art 2 Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
215 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. 215 of the 275 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds PETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY DISTRICT JRLIVESTOCK ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC KERR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DER STADTISCHE FRIEDHOF FREDERICKSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR VETERANS NOW ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLATE OF OUR LADY OF HOPE ST RAFKA MISSION OF HOPE & MERCY ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fredericksburg Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY REHABILITATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EL PROGRESO LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds MOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION OF KERRVILLE TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Museum of Western Art ↗
- Who funds Missionaries of the New Evangelization ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds ARMS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDINA COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA LIVE INC DBA KERRVILLE'S 4TH ON THE RIVER ↗
- Who funds DIETERT CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIGHT ON THE HILL MOUNT WESLEY ↗
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: Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Adam R Scripps Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · Create Healthy Management · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County
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 Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc 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.
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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.