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Tres Grace Family 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.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
103
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$3.3MFood & Nutrition$2.4MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$860kHousing & Shelter$680kArts & Culture$480kYouth Development$345kEnvironment$325kOther$0
02FY2024 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $615k
  • $50k–250k61 grants · $6.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.5M
$62,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$127M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation Inc$2,000,000
Coastal Bend Food Bank$300,000
Central Texas Food Bank$300,000
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank$300,000
Driscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation Inc$300,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities South Texas$250,000
Texas State Aquarium Association$210,000
Houston Food Bank$200,000
South Texas Food Bank$200,000
North Texas Food Bank$200,000
Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley Inc$200,000
Del Mar College Foundation Inc$150,000
HFCC Inc$150,000
Remember the Alamo Foundation$150,000
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Foundation Inc$150,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%St Jude's Ranch for Children - Texas Region Inc: $10k → 7%CASA of South Texas: $25k → 16%Camp Aranzazu: $25k → 17%St Jude's Ranch for Children -- Texas Region Inc: $10k → 7%Helping Hand Home for Children: $50k → 10%Christian Assistance Ministry Inc: $100k → 16%SA Christian Hope Resource Center Inc: $100k → 16%Foster Angels of South Texas Foundation: $45k → 17%Good Samaritan Rescue Mission: $100k → 17%Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas: $140k → 16%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $50k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $10k → 17%Morgans Wonderland Camp: $25k → 16%YMCA of Austin: $15k → 10%Good Samaritan Rescue Mission: $10k → 17%Mission Road Developmental Center: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
2
Homeless Network of Texas

To lead texas communities to make homelessness rare, brief, and non- curring; to help communities strategically plan to prevent and end homelessness.

Community Improvement
3
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
4
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
5
San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc

Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.

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6
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

Human Services
7
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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8
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

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.

Human Services
9
Children's Alliance of South Texas

To provide a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the investigation, intervention and treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal
10
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.

Human Services
11
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
12
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas and the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Philharmonic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare System OperationsTexas Sector Support Organi…Independent K-12 SchoolsHousing & Homelessness Serv…Health, Education, and Soci…Arts, Culture & Youth Devel…Texas Advocacy OrganizationsVeterans Support Organizati…Cancer Support and ResearchTampa Bay Community Organiz…Youth Development Organizat…Child Protection and Care S…Affordable Housing Providers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%3%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr14%61%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/76
the rest of the field
13%
2,551/19,358

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.

04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
21/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS — $28,039,753 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS+41 more — $3,625,000 · Other+41 moreDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation — $2,450,000 · PhilanthropyDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $100,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $400,000 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $300,000 · Food & NutritionEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $300,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $25,000 · Food & NutritionRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES SOUTH TEXAS — $250,000 · HealthCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $130,000 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $110,000 · HealthPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $100,000 · HealthProject MEND — $100,000 · HealthTRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthAMISTAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $62,000 · HealthPAY IT FORWARD - CLEAN AND SOBER LIVING INC — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $25,000 · HealthCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $140,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION — $110,000 · Human ServicesMISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesChristian Assistance Ministry — $100,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC — $60,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Human Services+5 more — $110,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $150,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $150,000 · EducationTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND — $100,000 · EducationTEXAS FARM BUREAU AG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationRemember the Alamo Foundation — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCORPUS CHRISTI SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLADY LEX MUSEUM ON THE BAY ASSOC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$31,664,753Philanthropy$2,800,000Food & Nutrition$1,125,000Health$927,000Human Services$815,000Education$635,000Arts & Culture$430,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation — $2,450,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $400,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEL PASOANS FIGHTING HUNGER — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES SOUTH TEXAS — $250,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION — $210,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROY MAAS' YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC — $160,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy — $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHFCC INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $140,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $130,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $120,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB — $110,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $110,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION — $110,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEMISFAIR CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMISSION ROAD DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SERVICE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA AUTISM COMMUNITY NETWORK — $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetProject MEND — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTaking Care of Texas — $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTRIUMPH OVER KID CANCER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPease Park Conservancy — $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS FARM BUREAU AG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAMISTAD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $62,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC — $60,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budget
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.

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.

The John G and Marie …Puente de Maravillas …Ed Rachal FoundationSan Antonio Area Foun…Methodist Healthcare …Behmann Brothers Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Alice Kleberg Reynold…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…Nustar FoundationThe Moody Foundation
The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial FoundationTX50.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Puente de Maravillas Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nustar Foundation · The Moody 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 Tres Grace Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tres Grace Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tres Grace Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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