· Private foundation
The Ewing Halsell Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+12 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Facilities Fund | $1,125,000 |
| Great Hearts Texas | $500,000 |
| Texas Charter School Development | $500,000 |
| The Children's Shelter | $250,000 |
| Harnony Public Schools | $250,000 |
| Valor Texas Education Foundation | $250,000 |
| School of Science and Technology- Public Charter School | $250,000 |
| Compass Rose Education Inc | $250,000 |
| Main Plaza Conservancy | $250,000 |
| Somerset Academy Inc | $250,000 |
| Choose to Succeed | $250,000 |
| Royal Public Schools | $250,000 |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation | $200,000 |
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $200,000 |
| Choose to Succeed | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $740k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 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, 83% 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
- IPIDEA Public Schools6× · 2017–2022 · $6.5M · revenue +257%
- BTBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +199%
- CRCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue ×14
Funded once
- RMREASONING MIND INCone grant, 2017 · $625k
- LTLegacy Traditional Public Charter School - SEEone grant, 2022 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $400k
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.
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…
See schedule osan antonio academy of texas offers prekindergarten through eighth grade boys an exceptional academic program that features small classes, a family-like atmosphere, the development of a positive self image and a foundation…
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.
Provide an accelerated and enriched college-preparatory education for students in grades k-12. provide pre-k educational service for 3 and 4 year-old children.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Represent public education employees in labor related matters, to include matters specific to wages, hours, and thier condition of employment.
Our mission drives academic and socio-emotional development (see Schedule O) through a rigorous college preparatory, STEM-based learning model. The model is anchored on 21st century skills, embraced by a character-building approach, and…
At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…
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.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
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…
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choose to Succeed Inc and the most unlike its peers is Skew the Script. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 95 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 CHOOSE TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Valor Texas Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION DBA LEGACY TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS-TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PROMESA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds REASONING MIND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OLD SPANISH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC ↗
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 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · George W Brackenridge Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc
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 Ewing Halsell 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.
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