How much did United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County grant in FY2025?

Human Services$68MHealth$20MEducation$14MHousing & Shelter$9.5MPhilanthropy$6.8MCommunity Improvement$4.3MReligion$2.9MYouth Development$2.6MCrime & Legal$1.8MOther$76M

02FY2025 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $174k
$10k–50k44 grants · $930k
$50k–250k48 grants · $6.0M
$250k+35 grants · $24M

$58,791

Median grant

States reached

$87M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO INC	$3,559,705
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO INC	$1,973,526
HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY	$1,352,290
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO	$1,342,365
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK	$1,267,962
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC	$946,864
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO DBA GOOD SAMARITAN COMMUNITY SERVICE	$825,873
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO	$819,823
RESTORE EDUCATION INC	$787,212
DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER	$775,102
AVANCE INC	$737,676
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN ANTONIO	$672,718
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO	$636,330
CHILDSAFE	$548,383
MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO	$509,950

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $67.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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 edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$202M · 158 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

158 repeat relationships — 117 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

158

Total granted

$202M

$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+5%

Still filing today

75%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $885k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

FS
Family Service Association of San Antonio Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $21M · revenue +78%
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
7× · 2019–2025 · $12M · revenue +46%
HF
Haven for Hope of Bexar County
7× · 2019–2025 · $9.5M · revenue +47%

Funded once

AI
AVANCE INC
one grant, 2019 · $671k
TS
The Salvation Army
one grant, 2019 · $587k
WS
WARM SPRINGS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $285k · revenue -32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

United Way of Southern Cameron County

The united way of southern cameron county's mission is to "improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities to advance the common good".

Philanthropy

United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy

United Way of East-Central Texas

To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.

Philanthropy

United Ways of Texas Inc

United ways of texas (uwt) exists to strengthen and support the work and impact of local united ways in texas.

Philanthropy

United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County

The mission of united way of san antonio and bexar county (uwsa) is to unite the community to identify and solve our most critical issues.

Philanthropy

Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy

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

United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc

Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…

Philanthropy

United Way of Abilene Inc

United way of abilene promotes the health, education, and financial stability of every person in west central texas by leveraging the intellectual, organizational, institutional, financial, faith-based, and personal resources of its local…

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United Way of the Csra Inc

United way of the csra mobilizes the caring power of our community to make lasting change on the issues that matter most in our region. we want to ensure that children, young adults, and families have the tools and resources they need to…

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United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Autism Service Center of San Antonio Dba Autism Community Network. 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.

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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%2/238

the rest of the field

15%

20,231/136,566

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

168 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. 168 of the 249 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

163/168

Grantees still filing

100/168

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$83,129,635Human Services$67,825,229Health$20,464,095Education$13,889,310Housing & Shelter$9,549,193Philanthropy$6,699,700Community Improvement$4,303,141

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX126.8× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · San Antonio Food Bank · Marcia & Otto Koehler 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 United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County?

Find your warmest path to United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines