· Private foundation
The Ewing Halsell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Texas Charter School Development | $500,000 |
| Great Hearts Texas | $500,000 |
| Somerset Academy Inc | $250,000 |
| Royal Public Schools | $250,000 |
| Harnony Public Schools | $250,000 |
| Main Plaza Conservancy | $250,000 |
| School of Science and Technology- Public Charter School | $250,000 |
| Choose to Succeed | $250,000 |
| The Children's Shelter | $250,000 |
| Valor Texas Education Foundation | $250,000 |
| Compass Rose Education Inc | $250,000 |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation | $200,000 |
| Remember the Alamo Foundation | $200,000 |
| Choose to Succeed | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 95 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 CHOOSE TO SUCCEED INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- 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 SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OLD SPANISH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS ↗
- Who funds Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW FRONTIERS PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ewing Halsell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ewing Halsell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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