How much does The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation give?

The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $234,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (20%), Religion (17%).

Who are The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($251k), University United Methodist Church ($250k), Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio ($196k).

Does The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, San Antonio Area Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.

Where is The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation based?

The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation is based in TX.

The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation

The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$234k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$703kHuman Services$465kReligion$385kAnimals$187kEducation$174kHousing & Shelter$114kArts & Culture$62kEnvironment$55kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $18k
$10k–50k10 grants · $166k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RES HOSPITAL	$32,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$24,000
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE	$20,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION	$18,000
GLENN BIGGS INSTITUTE FOR ALZHEIMER	$16,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION	$16,000
CHRISTIAN SENIOR SERVICE	$10,000
FOUNDATIONS FOR LAITY RENEWAL	$10,000
MITCHELL LAKE AUDUBON CENTER	$10,000
TEXAS TECH UNIVERISTY HEALTH SCIENC	$10,000
TJHS LASSO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION	$7,000
Individual grant recipient	$6,000
ARMY FISHER HOUSES	$3,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 33 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+18%

Still filing today

45%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +145%
BJ
BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO
8× · 2017–2024 · $196k · revenue +17%
HF
Haven for Hope of Bexar County
7× · 2017–2023 · $114k · revenue +38%

Funded once

SA
SAN ANTONIO AM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $16k
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +18%
HP
HIGH POINT VILLAGE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +147%

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.

Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education

University of Texas At San Antonio Alumni Association

To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. we…

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Greater Satx

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.

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The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education

Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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Texas Academy of Family Physicians

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.

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Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans

Aama's mission is to inspire and empower latinos to pursue and achieve their potential and achieve success. aama's ultimate goal is that all latinos will be able to participate fully in the economic and civic success of our community. the…

Human Services

Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement

The Campus of the San Antonio Jewish Community

To support and benefit the religious, charitable, and educational purposes of its nonprofit 501(c)(3) members.

Community Improvement

The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education

Southwestern Health Resources Hospitals Joc

To create an integrated hospital system operating in the dallas area to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves without regard to their ability to pay.

Health

Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Hope of Bexar County; the most unlike its peers is High Point Village Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 41 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,322,000Health$368,000Human Services$283,500Housing & Shelter$113,500Education$105,000Environment$55,000Recreation & Sports$24,000Public Benefit$17,500

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.

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.

United Way of San Antonio and Bexar CountyTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Phyllis L Schoener Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Phyllis L Schoener Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home