· Public charity
The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation
The foundation's exempt purpose is to encourage, foster, support, and conduct activities and programs which will benefit children residing within texas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 55 grants below total $1,905,070 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,099,189 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $194,119 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $348k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $816k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRACKENRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY | $550,000 |
| SA LIFE ACADEMY | $103,820 |
| RESPITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO | $103,480 |
| THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO | $102,710 |
| MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES | $102,560 |
| SPECIAL REACH INC | $101,230 |
| BRIGHTON CENTER | $101,070 |
| THE RISE SCHOOL OF SA | $100,850 |
| SA COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTO | $50,000 |
| YWCA SAN ANTONIO | $50,000 |
| LITTLE FLOWER SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOC OF SA | $45,000 |
| HEALY-MURPHY CHILD DEV CENTER | $40,000 |
| SAISD FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LEAVEN KIDS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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
- HFHaven for Hope of Bexar County2× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
- SASAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +84%
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $636k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- RTRemember the Alamo Foundationone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue -9%
- TETOLLA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TPTHE PAT GREEN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +725%
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.
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
At Discovery School, our mission is to inspire and nurture the love of learning in young children and their families. The School offers an enhanced early childhood education for children 2 through 7 years to provide them with the skills…
The mission of sa talent, inc. is to educate and develop youth and adults into the talent needs of san antonio's current and future employers and provide services for the regional employers for the retention and growth of their local…
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…
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
To recruit, develop, and lead court-appointed volunteer advocates who provide constancy for abused and neglected children and youth while advocating for services and placement in safe and permanent homes.
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.
The mission of Southwest Winners Foundation is to provide an adaptive and effective learning environment that prepares students for success in the workplace and/or college.
To educate qualified individuals of public benefits that they may be entitled to. we accomplish this by working with local city, state, and federal agencies for the purpose of outreach and verification work. recently we have focused mainly…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sa Life Academy. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 114 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 Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Morgan's Wonderland ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brackenridge Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds RISE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds KIPP SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds City Kids Adventures ↗
- Who funds THE WINSTON SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Respite Care of San Antonio Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAMABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds SA Life Academy ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ROAD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Special Reach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds MISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PAT GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Mays Family Foundation
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 Texas Cavaliers 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.