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Triple Dawson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YOUTHCUE | $42,500 |
| TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $41,575 |
| BAPTIST UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAS | $15,000 |
| ALPHA HOME INC | $9,590 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,750 |
| VICKREY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $500 |
| KLRN | $250 |
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 (FY23–25, $7k) 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 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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WMWitte Museum3× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
- URUTSA ROADRUNNER FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $900k
- TBTRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $621k
Funded once
- SASAM AND LAURA DAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue +108%
BAYLOR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%- SDST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $3k
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 organization is to be operated exclusively to preserve and restore the alamo complex and to educate and inspire visitors on the history of all those who lived, fought, and died there.
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.
The mission of RTAF is to provide support exclusively for the Alamo Trust, Inc., A TEXAS NON-PROFIT Corporation, and its preservation, educational outreach, and public programs.
To promote fellowship among former students, current students, and friends of texas a&m, to spread the aggie spirit across the greater san antonio area, and to provide scholarships to bexar county students attending texas a&m university.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
To develop and enhance the international trade-related economic development of the san antonio area through foreign investment, trade development, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vickrey Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds ALPHA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE ↗
- Who funds SAM AND LAURA DAWSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALAMO AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VICKREY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
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: Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Triple Dawson 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.
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.
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