· Private foundation
Triple Dawson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| VICKREY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $500 |
| KLRN | $250 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 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 SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VICKREY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALAMO COLLEGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALAMO AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ARISE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL DOING BUSINESS AS KLRN ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Triple Dawson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Triple Dawson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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