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The Kerr Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Kerr Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$253kArts & Culture$189kEducation$117kHuman Services$75kEnvironment$68kPhilanthropy$33kInternational$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$65,000
HUMANITIES TEXAS$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE$10,000
OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE$10,000
KLRN$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY$5,000
ETOSHA RESCUE AND ADOPTION CENTER$5,000
ROARING GAP FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $5k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $5k → 16%HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%Hope House Ministries: $5k → 16%MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$772k · 14 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$772k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+22%

Still filing today

79%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    5× · 2019–2025 · $285k · revenue +27%
  • HT
    HUMANITIES TEXAS
    5× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +48%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
    4× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MM
    MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • EF
    Energy for the Common Good
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TM
    THE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
2
Safe in Austin Rescue Ranch

Our healing hearts program rescues animals from abuse, neglect or have a special need and introduces them to children and adults that suffer from the same backgrounds for some healing time at no cost.

Animals
3
The Methodist Hospital

To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.

Health
4
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
6
Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science and Technology

To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.

Health
7
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
8
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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9
TMC3 Development Corporation
Health
10
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
11
Alamo Trust Inc

The organization is to be operated exclusively to preserve and restore the alamo complex and to educate and inspire visitors on the history of all those who lived, fought, and died there.

Arts & Culture
12
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Texas; the most unlike its peers is Mind Science Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $285,000 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTETHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $16,666 · HealthTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATIONHUMANITIES TEXAS: $111,600 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES TEXASTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC RADIOWitte Museum: $33,333 · Arts & CultureWitte Museum+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MCNAY MUSEUM: $86,000 · OtherTHE MCNAY MUSEUMThe Acorn School: $30,000 · OtherThe Acorn SchoolOVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherOVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $45,000 · Other+10 moreMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $50,000 · Human ServicesMORNINGSI…Christian Assistance Ministry: $20,000 · Human ServicesChristian…HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUS…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $53,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONME…Energy for the Common Good: $25,000 · EnvironmentEnergy fo…FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $33,000 · PhilanthropyDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $5,000 · International
Health$301,666Arts & Culture$214,933Other$191,000Human Services$80,000Environment$78,000Philanthropy$33,000International$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $285,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITIES TEXAS: $111,600 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $53,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWitte Museum: $33,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $33,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEnergy for the Common Good: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $16,666 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES CHRISTIAN TULLER HOUSE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…The Nancy Wood Moorma…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
San Antonio Area FoundationTX19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kerr Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kerr Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Kerr Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Kerr Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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