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United Way of Comal and Guadalupe Counties

To engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal and guadalupe counties

$679k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MFood & Nutrition$502kHealth$498kEducation$310kPublic Safety & Disaster$261kYouth Development$220kCrime & Legal$167kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $636,801, the rows itemized in this filing. The $678,801 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $42,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k23 grants · $519k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
$23,701
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINIS$65,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK$52,500
CONN INDIV & FAMILY SERVICE$40,000
CRISIS CENTER OF COMAL COUNTY$37,000
CASA OF CENTRAL TX INC$35,000
SALVATION ARMY OF COMAL$35,000
COMM RESOURCE & REC CENTER$35,000
ROCK HAUS FOUNDATION$34,500
FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BR$34,000
COMM IN SCHOOLS OF STX INC$30,000
CHILDRENS ADVO CENT OF COM$29,000
COMAL COUNTY CHILD WELFARE B$25,000
COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS$23,701
ACACIA MEDICAL MISSION$22,600
BULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MA HILAS HEART PROJECT FDN: $10k → 16%SJRC TEXAS INC: $10k → 7%SJRC TEXAS INC: $10k → 7%ROCK HAUS FOUNDATION: $48k → 10%CONN INDIV & FAMILY SERVICE: $40k → 10%CONN INDIV & FAMILY SERVICE: $40k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BR: $35k → 10%ROCK HAUS FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BR: $34k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $24k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $20k → 10%ANY BABY CAN OF SA INC: $18k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $17k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS ANGELS: $13k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS ANGELS: $12k → 10%CHOSEN CARE INC: $10k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $9k → 10%SOS FOOD BANK: $9k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $8k → 10%SOS FOOD BANK: $8k → 10%SOS FOOD BANK: $8k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $8k → 10%CHOSEN CARE INC: $5k → 10%CHOSEN CARE INC: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 51 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
11

Total granted

$4.8M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

53%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $387k · revenue +60%
  • RC
    RIVER CITY ADVOCACY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +81%
  • BF
    BULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • NB
    New Braunfels Youth Collaborative
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • SH
    SOW HEALTHY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $26k
  • AB
    ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue -17%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
4
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
5
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
6
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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8
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
9
Central Texas Community Health Centers

Communitycare operates 25 health center locations offering comprehensive primary care services for the entire family including pediatrics, behavioral health services, and dental care.

Health
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa of Liberty/Chambers Counties

None

Human Services
11
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
12
Novelty Behavioral Health

Our mission is to provide Accessible and Affordable Holistic-Based mental-health care to the communities we serve without without regard to their background or insurance status in a caring environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections Individual and Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Braunfels Youth Collaborative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
13/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $387,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKCRRC: $300,876 · OtherCRRCCRISIS CNETER OF COMAL: $260,950 · OtherCRISIS CNETER OF COMALIndividual grant recipient: $255,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $246,250 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $184,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $162,131 · OtherFAMILY LIFE CENTER: $138,500 · OtherCHILDRENS ADVOCACY OF COMAL: $137,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $132,200 · OtherCASA OC CENTRAL TX: $129,750 · Other+32 more: $1,252,607 · Other+32 moreRIVER CITY ADVOCACY: $150,500 · HealthRIVER CITY …NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $130,000 · HealthNEW BRAUNFE…RECOVERYWERKS: $129,500 · HealthRECOVERYWER…ACACIA MEDICAL MISSION: $50,200 · HealthACACIA MEDI…Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $31,200 · HealthFriends of …COMAL IDD: $82,350 · Human ServicesCOMAL IDDCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTIO…FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $68,800 · Human ServicesFAMILY LI…COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $43,701 · Human ServicesCOMAL COU…HOPE HOSPICE: $41,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOSP…TRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS: $25,320 · Human ServicesTRANSFORM…SOS INC: $23,875 · Human ServicesSOS INCSJRC TEXAS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHOSEN CARE INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $17,500 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsBULVERDE SENIOR CENTER: $74,750 · Recreation & SportsBULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC: $137,500 · Food & NutritionNew Braunfels Youth Collaborative: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $80,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,587,264Health$491,400Human Services$432,046Recreation & Sports$154,750Food & Nutrition$137,500Youth Development$100,000Community Improvement$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $387,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITY ADVOCACY: $150,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetBULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC: $137,500 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $130,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetRECOVERYWERKS: $129,500 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetNew Braunfels Youth Collaborative: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMAL IDD: $82,350 over 2y, 22% of budgetCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBULVERDE SENIOR CENTER: $74,750 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetCASA of Central Texas Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $68,800 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN: $59,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetACACIA MEDICAL MISSION: $50,200 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD: $48,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $43,701 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE: $41,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $36,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $31,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS: $25,320 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOS INC: $23,875 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetSTEPS FOR LIFE: $22,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetNB HOUSING PARTNERS: $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOSEN CARE INC: $19,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMA HILAS HEART PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINGRAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN RIDGE LIONS CHARITIES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 24% of budget
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 SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds BULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERYWERKS ↗
  • Who funds New Braunfels Youth Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds COMAL IDD ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds BULVERDE SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Central Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN ↗
  • Who funds ACACIA MEDICAL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds COMAL COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD ↗
  • Who funds COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

McKenna FoundationNew Braunfels Area Co…The Gvtc Foundation I…Harvey E Najim Charit…San Antonio Area Foun…St Luke's Lutheran He…Carl C Anderson Sr an…San Antonio Food BankVeramendi Charitable …Ingram Family Foundat…John L Santikos Chari…Building Bridge Found…
McKenna FoundationTX55.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McKenna Foundation · New Braunfels Area Community Foundation · The Gvtc Foundation Inc · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · Veramendi Charitable Foundation · Ingram Family Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Building Bridge Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Comal and Guadalupe Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Comal and Guadalupe Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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