· Public charity
The Rackspace Foundation
The Rackspace Foundation is a 501(c )(3) nonprofit funded entirely by rackspace employees, dedicated to building stronger communities through education - especially in science, technology, engineering, and math (stem).
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $61,500 |
| YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | $39,250 |
| GEMINI INK | $35,000 |
| TOWNSHIP OF UNION PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| GIRLSTART | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO | $18,750 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO | $15,000 |
| YOUTH CODE JAM | $14,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $479k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Rackspace Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +69% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +150%
GIRLSTART8× · 2017–2024 · $402k · revenue +1%- GSGemini Series Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SASAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT FORE YOUTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +69%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds Gemini Series Inc ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CODE JAM SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST KEY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAY SI ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO DEVELOPMENT FORE YOUTH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Spurs Give · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · H E Butt Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rackspace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rackspace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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