· Private foundation
The Phoenix Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAISD FOUNDATION | $89,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| CHILD BRIDGE | $35,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - SAN ANTONIO | $30,000 |
| CITY EDUCATION PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| KIPP TEXAS FUNDRAISING SAN ANTONIO | $25,000 |
| ST ANDREWS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO REPORT | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION | $1,625 |
| MONTANA REVIVAL | $1,500 |
| SA LIFE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- TBTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +68%
- CBCHILD BRIDGE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +324%
- EEdify3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $101k
- BABK ASHER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -98% · 100% of their budget
- GOGOODWILL OF CENTRAL TEXASone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
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 facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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.
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
The mission of the sa cancer council is to provide financial resources for patient assistance services and cancer research to support the mays cancer center, home to ut health san antonio md anderson.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
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…
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Livestock Exposition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bk Asher Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 66 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 TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Edify ↗
- Who funds BK ASHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY BALL ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Report ↗
- Who funds KALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds BEXAR COUNTY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SA Life Academy ↗
- Who funds THE DEE HOWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST HEALING CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RISE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL FORUM ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Institute CMI ↗
- Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
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 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Circle Bar Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
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 Phoenix Charitable 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.