· Private foundation
The Dixie Starnes Wenger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH MINISTRIES FOR GREATER HOUSTON | $40,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $12,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL ISD SOCIAL SERVICES | $12,000 |
| SOUTH TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $12,000 |
| SHINER CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS | $7,000 |
| GONZALES MAIN STREET INC | $7,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC | $7,000 |
| GONZALES COUNTY RESTORATION ASSOC | $7,000 |
| RWANDA SHINES | $7,000 |
| UNIVERSITY METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BLUEPRINT MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| WILSON AREA CHILDREN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION - TEACHER MINIGRANTS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 15 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- IMInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston8× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +169%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS7× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +23%
- SASAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TCTexas Children's Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +78%
- SSSECOND SERVICE OF HOUSTONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SASpay-Neuter Assistance Program Incone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To educate qualified individuals of public benefits that they may be entitled to. we accomplish this by working with local city, state, and federal agencies for the purpose of outreach and verification work. recently we have focused mainly…
Child Advocacy
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide services which focus on nourishing lives, enabling independence and caring for the most frail and isolated residents in the greater san antonio region.
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
To protect and improve the lives of dogs and cats by providing shelter, care, adoption, rescue, spay & neuter programs and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unicorn Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 167 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 Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RWANDA SHINES ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A NEEDY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds GONZALES CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Guide Dogs of Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds GONZALES YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GONZALES MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GONZALES ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GONZALES ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds WILSON AREA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CIVIC ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA THOMPSON PEARSALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds House of Neighborly Service of San Antonio Texas ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS ↗
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 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation
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 Dixie Starnes Wenger 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.
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.