· Private foundation
The Klesse 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 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.
The 68 grants below total $7,123,591 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,420,793 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,297,202 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k41 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $394k
- $250k+4 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTSA | $4,000,000 |
| Children's Hospital of SA Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| UTHSCSA | $1,000,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas | $250,000 |
| United Way of San Antonio | $150,000 |
| 2016 Archbishop's Appeal | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $94,225 |
| Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas | $50,000 |
| Briscoe Westem Art Museum | $41,210 |
| Catholic Charities | $25,000 |
| Briscoe Westem Art Museum | $25,000 |
| UTSA | $25,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas | $23,413 |
| Texas NF Foundation | $20,000 |
| The Blood and Tissue Foundation | $20,000 |
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 +28% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +72%
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE2× · 2018–2020 · $575k · revenue +55%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC3× · 2018–2022 · $436k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Daytongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +27%
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2018 · $1.0M
- CCCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $250k
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…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
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 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.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Sumner Teen Center Inc. 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 49 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 99 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 CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds PHIL HARDBERGER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE ↗
- Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
- Who funds OLD SPANISH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds Respite Care of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds YOUNG-WILLIAMS ANIMAL CENTER OF EAST TEN ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries 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.