· Private foundation
The Dawson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $19,250 |
| HAVEN FOR HOPE | $14,500 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY METHODIST CHURCH | $4,580 |
| THE WITTE MUSEUM | $3,650 |
| THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS | $1,000 |
| SNIPSA INC | $250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC | $250 |
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SASAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +9%
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF SAN2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
- SDST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
Funded once
- SASCOUTING AMERICAone 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.
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To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
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To foster human and community development through community-based arts.
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To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
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: Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · San Antonio Area Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dawson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dawson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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