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The Marshall Steves Foundation at a glance

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The Marshall Steves 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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.5MRecreation & Sports$359kAnimals$133kHealth$124kEducation$89kReligion$66kInternational$65kEnvironment$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REMEMBER THE ALAMO FOUNDATION$2,000,000
TOBIN CTR PERF ARTS$55,000
TMI EPISCOPAL$15,000
MIND SCIENCE FOUNDTION$10,000
CHRISTUS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,400
MORGAN'S WONDERLAND$5,000
LEIGA FAMILY FOUNDATION$3,500
LONGORIA HOSMER FUNDATION$2,050
ALAMO TRUST INC$1,250
SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$1,000
THE UNIV OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO$1,000
MISSION HERITAGE PARTNERS$500
FIFTH ARMY ASSN$180
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Chistian Assistance Ministry: $10k → 16%GIRLS INC OF SAN ANTONIO: $470 → 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.
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
45

Total granted

$1.2M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24%

Still filing today

54%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +84%
  • TW
    THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO
    6× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +6%
  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
  • TB
    TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM
    one grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue -12%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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3
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
4
Texas Association of Museums

The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
5
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
—
6
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…

Arts & Culture
7
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Archeological Society

To promote scientific archeological exploration and research, the preservation and conservation of archeological materials and sites, and the curation of their associated information.

Arts & Culture
9
Fiesta San Antonio CommissionInc

To plan,promote,and preserve Fiesta San Antonio through the support of non-profit, civic and patriotic participating member organization in presenting a safe educational, annual celebration of diverse heritage,culture and spirit of the San…

—
10
Texas Flying Legends Museum
—
11
The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund
Arts & Culture
12
San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation

To preserve and to encourage the preservation of historic buildings, objects, places and customs relating to the history of texas, its natural beauty and all that is admirably distinctive to texas; and by such physical and cultural…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Conservation Society; 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

44 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. 44 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Remember the Alamo Foundation: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureRemember the Alamo FoundationWitte Museum: $195,900 · Arts & CultureWitte Museum+11 more: $75,842 · Arts & CultureTx Cavaliers Charitable Foundation: $271,000 · OtherTx Cavaliers Charitable Found…ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHTOBIN CTR PERF ARTS: $55,000 · OtherTOBIN CTR PERF ARTSWITTE MUSEUM QUILLIN SOCIETY: $46,400 · OtherTOBIN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $45,000 · OtherTOBIN CENTER: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $32,400 · Other+49 more: $347,031 · Other+49 moreSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $102,600 · AnimalsMERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $55,428 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthTHE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO: $62,500 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 · InternationalHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY: $55,000 · Recreation & SportsMorgan's Wonderland: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLeija Family Foundation: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsBRIGHTON CENTER: $21,660 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $15,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,271,742Other$936,831Animals$132,600Health$65,428International$65,000Recreation & Sports$63,500Education$51,660

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 budgetWitte Museum: $195,900 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $102,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF SAN ANTONIO: $62,500 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $55,428 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY: $55,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM: $24,015 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $22,700 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRIGHTON CENTER: $21,660 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $21,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $20,767 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART: $15,475 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusical Bridges Around the World Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK: $11,550 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMIND SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $11,050 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANARY ISLANDS DESCENDANTS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIBOLO CONSERVANCY dba HEART OF TEXAS CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $3,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSYMPHONY SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTPACE INC (AUDIT): $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WESTERN ART FOUNDATION BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,325 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORDER OF THE ALAMO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS COMPADRES DE SAN ANTONIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO: $470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPort Aransas Preservation and Historical Association: $200 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…Impetus FoundationBetty Stieren Kelso F…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Greater Houston Commu…The Nancy Wood Moorma…The Brown Foundation …Charitable Foundation…The Texas Cavaliers C…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Faye L & William L Co…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX42.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Impetus Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable 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 Marshall Steves Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marshall Steves Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

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    How do I get to The Marshall Steves Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Marshall Steves 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 83 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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